finca
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We have to leave the finca and the island.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
In the first chapter, Basch and Berry are staying at their Costa Rican finca, and Basch requires stitches from a Tica physician.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019
In truth, apart from the sometimes crass commercialization — a gift shop at the finca hawks mugs, T-shirts and even snow-globes — many Cubans seem genuinely proud of the author's undisputed affection for the island.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2018
Stern called the finca row just one example of Becker’s inability to cope with the millions he had earned.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2017
We were not allowed to go into Lalao’s finca, which was surrounded by a well-maintained barbwire fence.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
During his time in office, Arbenz emerged as the owner of a $3,000,000 cotton plantation; his Interior Minister turned into a gentleman-farmer with two coffee fincas; another pal acquired two mansions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of his 50-odd cattle ranches and 45 coffee fincas he got by "smart buying."
From Time Magazine Archive
And for this he receives the direction of the See of Cartagena and the disposition of the rich revenues from the mines and fincas of his diocese.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
However, a reasonable amount of capital in the beginning is necessary and many investors possessing the capital prefer to buy fincas or plantations that are already producing.
From Guatemala, the country of the future by Charles M. Pepper
Almost everyone was off, working in the coffee fincas.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
