Toabré

About Toabré:

Toabré starts where Penonomé city ends. The boundary with the district seat follows the quebrada Sotová, also called El Búho, from the río Marica up to the top of cerro Campana, and Tulú lies to the west across the ridges. Toabré village is the seat of the corregimiento, with Sagrejá beside it and Tambo some 3 km to the northeast. The asphalt runs from Penonomé to Tambo and carries on toward Tucué, while the road through Las Cuestas de Marica is the one that climbs toward the wind farm. Away from those routes, tosca tracks reach hamlets such as Chiguirí Abajo and Sabana Larga, and the last stretch into a finca is often unpaved.

Toabré used to be far larger. Until April 2022 it covered almost 400 km² and was the biggest corregimiento in the district, but that year a law created Boca de Tucué and San Miguel out of its northern half. What remains is home to about 7,400 people, most of them in farming households. Oranges set the tone: one estate in the Toabré area grows some 300 hectares of Valencia oranges under drip irrigation for the local market and for export, and many families earn part of their income in the groves and in the coffee harvest. Cattle, plantain and crops grown for the family table make up the rest.

The wind farm is the newest thing on the skyline. Its first phase, 20 turbines with 66 MW between them, finished testing in 2023, with a step-up substation at Toabré and a 230 kV line carrying the power to Antón. The change residents feel more directly is the Centro Materno Infantil in Tambo, opened in January 2025, which serves Toabré and the neighbouring corregimientos with general medicine, maternity care, a laboratory, a pharmacy and emergency care. For a hospital, a bank or a supermarket, people still drive down to Penonomé.

The land is hilly rather than mountainous, cut by the río Toabré and the streams that feed it, all part of the Coclé del Norte basin. Fincas mix flat terraces near the water with sloping pasture and patches of secondary forest on the higher ground. Buyers are ranchers, citrus and coffee growers, and people who want productive land within half an hour of Penonomé. Nothing moves the price like the road. A hectare fronting the asphalt near Tambo costs two to three times what a hectare deep in the hills of neighbouring Tulú does.

Fincas in Toabré:

Most of what sells here is a working farm. Along the Tambo road, fincas of 10 to 15 hectares come with river frontage, quebradas and hundreds of fruit trees, mostly Valencia orange, mandarin and lemon. Larger cattle fincas of 60 to 95 hectares sit about 20 km from Penonomé with asphalt on one side and tosca on the other. The better-equipped ones have pipe corrals, a cattle scale, a well with a pump and a simple wooden house. Ask how far a car can get onto the property, because on the bigger farms the internal track often stops halfway.

Land and Lots in Toabré:

Parcels of two to five hectares turn up close to the paved road, some flat and already connected to water and power, and these are the ones people buy to build a house with an orchard. Further in, around Chiguirí Abajo and Atré, tracts of 12 to 13 hectares sell with an earth-road frontage and suit citrus or coffee. Some of them combine a titled portion with land held only on derecho posesorio, and the price should show which part is which. Measure the frontage, walk the boundary with a neighbour and find out where the power line ends.

FAQ:

• How long is the drive from Penonomé?

  Tambo is about 25 km from the city on asphalt, and the fincas closest to the district seat are around 20 km out. Hamlets further in, such as Atré, are 35 km away, and the final kilometres are usually tosca. Drive the whole route, including the track into the property, before you talk price.

• Is the road going to be improved?

  In September 2026 the Ministry of Public Works awarded the rehabilitation of about 67 km of roads in northern Coclé, including the Chigoré–Caimito–Tambo–Toabré–La Pintada–Penonomé route and the short stretch from Toabré to Sagrejá. No completion date has been published. Price a property on the road it has now and count the upgrade as a bonus.

• What should I check on the title of a finca in Toabré?

  Here a single finca is often part titled and part held on derecho posesorio. Get the surveyed plan, see which hectares are registered at the Registro Público and which are only possessory, and make sure the deed places the land in Toabré rather than in Boca de Tucué or San Miguel, which belonged to Toabré until 2022. Where a river forms the boundary, walk it with the neighbours.

• Is there medical care nearby?

  Yes. The Centro Materno Infantil in Tambo opened in January 2025 with general medicine, maternity care, a laboratory and a pharmacy. Hospital care and specialists are in Penonomé.

• Is the land good for citrus and coffee?

  Citrus is already the main commercial crop, from large Valencia plantations under drip irrigation to small fincas with established orchards. Coffee is grown on a smaller scale. A producing orchard adds value, but ask how old the trees are, whether they are irrigated and who buys the fruit.