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Santa Elena
Nicaragua
Ed Frizell
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Richard
Myriam
Its Story...
Santa Elena has an area of 1,000 Nicaraguan manzanas (approximately 1,741 acres).
The Frizell-Barberena are the current owners of this Plantation, which at one time was part of the lands owned by our ancestors, Don Ignacio Trelles de Guzmán and Doña Maria del Pilar de Pamplona y Aragón, who received to these lands in the 1700s.
Santa Elena is an offshoot of ‘El Tanque’, a plantation owned by General Camilo Barberena and Doña Elena Deshón de Barberena (our Grandparents on our Mother’s side). Doña Elena is the lady in the dark suit standing, next to her sister Doña Adela, near the border of the picture (shown on the left). Doña Elena and Doña Adela are our Grandmothers.
Don Ricardo Frizell and Doña Myriam Barberena, our parents, (also shown in the pictures) developed Santa Elena, and transformed it from a tropical forest into a cotton/corn plantation and a cattle ranch.
They -and their heirs- are the sole legal owners of Santa Elena, on which the Resort will be established.
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In 2016, Dr. Eduardo Frizell became the legal owner of 1/3 of this plantation, which includes 268 acres of flat agricultural land, with circa 0.51 miles of a private beach on the Pacific.
Ownership.
Our 'Deed of Right and Property' over these lands is a matter of Public Record and our ownership is inscribed with the Public Registry of Nicaragua.
Our standing rights delineate the oceanic border of Santa Elena as the place ‘donde el agua del mar toca la panza de un caballo en marea seca’. Translated, the statement reads, ‘where the ocean meets the belly of a horse at ebb tide’.
Our rights of property are unimpeachable and include the rights over the seashore. These rights pertains to all legally and anciently owned properties in Nicaragua, because the ownership of the lands precedes both Nicaragua’s Independence and the issuing of the first Nicaraguan Constitution, but more importantly because the current deeds were issued before 1917, and thus had been 'grandfathered' by Law.
