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  • Welcome to Rancho Quemado
    • Our Story
    • Tours >
      • Osa Hiking Trail >
        • EL Sendero Osa
      • Cooking Classes >
        • Clases de Cocina
      • Artisinal Gold Tour: Las Minas >
        • El Tour de Oro Artesanal "Finca Las Minas"
      • Agriculture and Cacao Tour >
        • Agricultura y Cacao Tour
      • Nocturnal Wildlife Walk >
        • Caminata Nocturna: Osa Tribal
      • Comite Biological Monitoring >
        • Camping >
          • Comite de Monitoreo Biologico >
            • Camping
      • Sugarcane Mill >
        • Trapiche Artesanal Don Carmen
      • Milk Farm >
        • Conservando Huellas: Lecheria
      • UZU Expedition Tracking >
        • Expediciones de Ratreo Uzu
      • Tales of Life >
        • Anecdotas de los Abuelos
      • Typical Heart Dance Workshop of Osa >
        • Taller de Baile Típico de Costa Rica
    • FoodStuff >
      • Bakery >
        • Panaderia Osa Silvestre
      • Soda Edward >
        • SodaEdward
    • Accommodations >
      • Rancho Verde >
        • Cabinas Rancho Verde
      • Paraiso Jaguarundi >
        • Cabinas Paraiso Jaguarundi
    • How To Get Here
    • Biocutural Route
    • PARTICIPATORY TOURISM
    • Communal Works >
      • Community Celebrations
    • Contact Us
  • .
  • Bienvenue à Rancho Quemado
    • À propos de nous
    • Tours >
      • Anecdotes des Anciens
      • Danse traditionnelle Corazón de Osa
      • Tour d'orpaillage artisanal Las Minas
      • Moniteur Biologique Tour >
        • Camping
      • Osa Tribal: tournée de l'agriculture biologique et du cacao
      • Osa Tribal Tour Promenade de Nuit
      • Sendero Osa: Sentier de randonnée communautaire
      • Suivi des Expedition UZU
      • Tour de cuisine traditionelle
      • Tour de la Maison des Papillons Casa del Bosque
      • Tour de Trapiche Don Carmen Ou de Fabrication de Miel de Canne a Sucre
      • Tour Conservando Huellas La Laiterie traditionelle
      • Tisser Les Reves
    • Ou bien manger >
      • Boulangerie Osa Silvestre
      • Soda Edward
    • Logement >
      • Paraiso Jaguarundi
      • Rancho Verde De Osa
    • Comment arriver
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Artisinal Gold Tour: Las Minas

Finca Las Minas offers the experience to get to know the work of artisanal gold miners, as well as the history of Rancho Quemado and the Osa Peninsula.

From the first steps taken on the property, the visitor is engulfed in history. The former gold mining diner now serves as a reception and refreshments area. A brief historical context of gold mining and techniques will be covered before
heading to the famous river where gold miners mined for gold.

The tourist will be able to try their luck in the process!

Duration: 2-3 hours
Refreshments are included.
The finca can be accessed on foot or by car. There is parking available for cars, mini busses, busses.

Costs:
$65 per person
$33 (2 person)
$30 (6 person Group)
Negociable per child (6-12 years)

Free Childs 6 years.

*Tour given in Spanish. A translator can be hired at an additional cost.
For More Information Contact:
Jessica Roldan  (506) 8667-2535
                     adi.ranchoquemado@gmail.com
Juan Cubillo (506) 8621-6531

Our History

Don Juan Cubillo is an orero since he was 7 years old, he dedicated himself to try his luck in the rivers of Osa, and traveling in search of opportunities he arrived in the 80's to Rancho Quemado to take care of a farm where they also made gold mining. , I work for years in this strong work and then did the paperwork with the IDA to achieve the award of this farm that is also the original site of the camps that gave name to Rancho Quemado, and along with his wife Rosa Moreno and 3 children continued to pray to survive. The idea of ​​the tour starts with a proposal from some visitors who were promoting projects for conservation, but don Juan Cubillo still did not trust that it would work; in 2011 a competition for tourism projects in the forest reserve and surrounding funded debt swap CR-USA and executed jointly by the Neotropica Foundation and the Corcovado Foundation and when Dona Rosa takes the initiative to participate and left selected was noised within the 50 classifieds that passed through filters to complete 23 participants of a business plan training process for almost a year with all costs covered. It was a difficult process of perseverance and faith that this initiative would be consolidated to finally form a cooperative of 15 tourism ventures, but on the last day of the organization Don Juan decided to retire. The time continued and as the tourism activity grew in the community Rosa continued with the hope of participating, also trained with INAMU and had more tools to shape the project, and then more training with the UCR and with the reception of tours Don Juan Cubillo began a change of thought and valued the opportunity to develop sustainably for the welfare of his family and the community because he could verify that teamwork provides results, so they joined the Rancho Integral Development Association Burned to be part of the chain of rural tourism, made procedures with FONAFIFO to encourage the farm and receive payment of environmental services for forest conservation, also participated in the formation of the Association of Osa at the level of the peninsula and are currently engaged to offer the service of participatory artisanal gold tours with typical dance presentation or, in this endeavor all members of the family participate with diverse functions and the objective is to rescue the history and tradition of the activity orera in a positive, cultural way and to promote the conservation of the forest.
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This family teaches us that change is possible and that faith and perseverance are the key to success, and that the true color of gold is green!
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