The three Berlíns
One hacienda, three shares and the one still in the family.
1975
How Berlín I, Berlín II and Berlín III came to be
Víctor Hoyos Torres put the land together between 1943 and 1948. It was a single hacienda, larger than today’s Berlín II.
In 1966 his estate passed to his widow and their three children. On March 5, 1975, through a deed at Notary Office No. 2 in Buga, the heirs dissolved their joint ownership and the hacienda was split in three.
Berlín I, Berlín II and Berlín III come from that split. Together they are the three Berlíns.
This is how the three sit, seen from the estate and looking toward Lake Calima. Diagram, not to scale.
Lake Calima
Guillermo Hoyos Salazar
On the left. It was sold over the years and is now a farm with other owners.
Still in the family
In the middle. It is the share the family has kept, and where the project begins, with a campground by the water.
Lucy Hoyos de Lequerica
On the right. It was also sold over the years, and today it has homes and businesses.
Seen from the estate, facing the lake. Diagram, not to scale.
Berlín II
About 423 hectares running from the mountain down to the lake, from about 2,000 to about 1,400 meters. Below, about 181 hectares of pasture; above, about 242 of mountain and forest.
There is a cabin with ochre walls and a wooden veranda, the caretaker’s house, the stables and a thatched kiosk by the lake. There are cattle in the pasture, streams, a wetland and a waterfall.
The upper part has a name in the municipality’s land-use plan: Área de Conservación La Cervatana. No houses or roads are allowed there, and we want it to stay that way.
The land
Some afternoons the mist rolls in through the Río Bravo canyon, from the west. Locals call it El Brujo, the sorcerer, and they say the name Calima comes from it, from calina, the haze.
The family says the duendes, the goblins of local legend, live by the stream. In the project’s first documents, the family called it Parque Ecológico de los Duendes.
These are stories, and we tell them as stories. What you can see with your own eyes: orchids, butterflies, birds and a sky that keeps changing over the lake.
A butterfly, up close.
An orchid from the estate.
A damselfly.
A butterfly in the garden.
One of the estate’s houses.
The history
The deeds, the lake that arrived in 1966 and the 1975 split, in order.
The project
Five phases, starting with a lakeside campground set to open in early 2028.
News
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