GENERAL INFORMATION

The farm is divided in two separate sites. The bigger includes the house, office, orchards, gardens, and equipment. The second and smaller one was bought later and contains a rainwater catchment dam with 5.000 cubic mts capacity.

Main site area: 6,5 Hectars
Second site area (with dam): 1,5 Hectars
Total area: 8 Hectars (80.000 mts²)

Typical traditional vegetation: Esteva, Azinheira, Alfarrobeira, Corkoak, Olives, Figtrees, Almondtrees, Pines (Pinus Pinea)

Planted vegetation in the orchard and vegetable gardens: Figtrees, Almondtree, Tangerines, Anoneiras, Videiras, Goiabas, Nespereiras, Aveleiras, among others.

Planted vegetation introduced as windbreak, shadow, biomass, firewood, shelterwood: Acácia Austrália, Acácia Mimosa, Chorão das Areias

Planted vegetation for fire resistant: Cactos

Wild animals in the region: Rabbits, Wild boar, Pega Azul, Garças, Black birds, Frogs, Turtles, Fish.

Type of soil: Xisto/Clay

Typical climate in the winter: Cold/Humid with minimum temperatures of 0^oC at night and 18 dregrees ^oC at lunch time.
Tipical clima in the summer: Quente com temperaturas máximas de 40^oC at midday and 28^oC at night.
Spring and Autumn are mild and pleasent.

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HOUSE / STRUCTURES

• One main house with 80 sq.mts + mezanine, that includes a kitchen/dining room with woodstove, a big space to store food and utenlis, one bedroom and one bathroom. There's a legal possibility to expand the area of the house by 20% of original area.
  The house is ready to live in and includes:
  • One waterheater
  • One whashing machine for closes
  • One gas cooking stove
  • One small fridge
  • Closets, tables, chairs, sofas, beds and other houseware
  • One television set

• One office/warehouse for tools and machine room (bateries, generators, inverters, etc).
• Two handmade warehouses for storing materials.
• One shed with 43 watt solar panel with battery.
• One old but usable caravan.
• Three dry loos
• One tree nursery that as lots of flowers, Cactos (Aloes), tropical and local yang fruit trees, several other plants.
• Terraces for camping, a few of them with drinkable water

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WATER

Water is suplied by pumping water from the Beliche dam to a uphill reservoir and then flows by gravity to the main house and irrigation hoses. 

Existing water reservoirs (excavated in the soil): one in the main site with 12.000 liters capacity, plus a 5.000 mts3 dam on the second site.

Irrigation systems:

• Irrigation pipes covers 2 hectars of the main site.
• Irrigation is done by different sections by gravity and/or diesel pump, with a main central manual valve controlers.
• By seep hose
• Surface and underground pipe network from ½ to 3 inch diameter.
• Pumping is done by a 6hp diesel pump.
• Theres the possibility to connect the entire system to the uphill dam located in the second site. This dam is normally full all year around.

Dam of Beliche:

• Colects clean rainwater, theres no agricultural activities in the neighbourhod.
• Swimming, boating, canoes, windsurfing, etc, are legally permited.
• Fishing is legally permited.
• Motor boats or other powered vehicles are not permited.

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ELECTRIC POWER

Electricity comes from two separate solar circuits and a windgenerator. There is no connection to the grid.

• Solar circuit #1:
  • 6 x 550 Amp BPSolar bateries.
  • 1 x Charger/Inverter Trace 900w with modified square sinewave.
  • 1 x Inverter Trace 2000w with modified square sinewave.
  • 6 x Photovoltaic panels with a total of 300w.
  • 1 x 20 Amp. charge controler
  • Time used: 8 years
     
• Solar circuit #2:
  • 6 x 1000 Amp BPSolar bateries.
  • 1 x 600w pure sinewave inverter (appropriate for computers and other sensitive electric equipment).
  • 5 x 80w Photovoltaic panels = total 400w.
  • 1 x BlueSky 30 Amp. MPPT charge controler with display.
  • 1 x Solar Tracker single axe rotation.
  • Coper wyring.
  • Time used: instaled new in November 2006.

• Windgenerator (Whisper 600):
  • 600w maximum capacity.
  • Connected directly to the batteries. Does not have a charge controler.
  • Time used: 8 years (new carbon fiber propellers were bought and installed in November 2006).

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COMMUNICATIONS

The main house is connected to the national telephone network, by underground cable until it reaches the car park area on the top of the hill. There is the possibility to install high speed DSL line internet connection.

OTHER EQUIPMENTS, MATERIALS AND TOOLS

• 1 x concrete mixer 180L
• 1 x 6Hp Diesel Pump
• 1 x 5Hp Diesel Pump
• 1 x 2800 Kva petrol generator (new).
• 1 x 2200 Kva petrol generator (old but working).
• 1 x fixed table drill
• 2 x Butan gas water heaters.
• 1 x washing machine for closes.
• Several tools and utensils to work with iron, aluminium, wood and electric parts.
• Several garden tools including shovels, spades, picks, etc.
• Several replacement parts for the irrigation system
• Several wood and alluminium bars
• Irrigation pipes
• 2 weelbarrows in good condition.

There are plenty of other equipments and materials on site.

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REGION

The farm is located at:

• 50 Kms from Faro;
• 12 Kms from Castro Marim;
• 16 Kms from Vila Real de Sto. António;
• 20 Kms from Ayamonte (Spain);
• 14 KMs from Monte Gordo;
• 14 Kms from the nearest beach (Praia Verde)

Municipal access roads to the farm are in good condition

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PRICE

€950.000

Reason for sale: Personal

Contact: Genevieve Roguier +351 96 452 55 36 / 96 84 69 583

Email: terramada@gmail.com