INDER regularizes plots in Talamanca, Batán, and Siquirres with short deadlines

The Rural Development Institute (INDER), through its Huetar Caribe Development Region and the Land Fund, notified this Tuesday, November 10, 2026, in the Official Gazette La Gaceta No. 213, a series of processes to regularize land ownership in settlements in Talamanca, Batán, and Siquirres, in the province of Limón. The notices, identified by official references IN202601138072 and IN202601138074, open a summary regularization procedure and establish deadlines of five and ten business days for possessors, original grantees, and interested third parties. Both edicts appear under the INDER first-time publication heading, signed by Manuel Rojas Sanabria, regional legal advisor.

The framework invoked by the institution is Article 85, subsection c), of Law 9036, which regulates the regularization of land tenure, along with Article 146 of the Executive Regulation of that law, published in Supplement 165 of La Gaceta No. 163 on August 25, 2021. For the summary processes, INDER also relies on the Board of Directors agreement, Article 55, from ordinary session number 39, held on October 21, 2024. The publications order the notification of three edicts in the Official Gazette.

Summary process in the Sixaola settlement

The first notice (IN202601138072) refers to cases where grants were detected on lots, farms, and parcels more than ten years old whose owners left the area, leaving third parties in possession of the property. Based on the evidence provided by the Talamanca Territorial Office, two persons of unknown domicile are notified:

• Rosa Luna Gómez, identification 270-112914-48733.
• José Antonio Morales Centeno, identification 270-117661-52324.

The agrarian inspection report on property LCP-73, plan L-342412-1996, granted via board of directors agreement, Article X, of session 067-96 held in 1996, determined that the grantee has not exercised possession for more than fifteen years, with no justification in the file for not inhabiting or maintaining the land. They are informed that the summary procedure will begin to regularize the land for the family that has exercised possession and remained in its exploitation throughout that time.

Thirteen requests in Batán and Siquirres

The second notice (IN202601138074) reports on the regularization requests being processed by the Huetar Caribe Development Region and the Land Fund in the Batán and Siquirres offices. The published list includes:

• Jorge Andrés Cascante Córdoba, Zent settlement, plot L-114-35, plan 7-9590-2026, 3,418.08 m².
• Otilia Mairena Obregón, Waghope settlement, plot C6-10, plan 7-1384541-2025, 406 m².
• Enola Bowrey Blackwood, Río Blanco settlement, plot 84-3, plan L-50931-2024, 7,052 m².
• Oliver Bowrey Blackwood, Río Blanco settlement, plot 84-2, plan L-48782-2024, 899 m².
• Xiomara Pavón Dávila, Río Blanco settlement, plot 84-1, plan L-50930-2024, 2,143 m².
• Karla Brown Colomer, Miraflores settlement, plot 70, plan L-447420-1997, 260.69 m².
• Óscar Martínez Bolaños, Castro Land settlement, plot P83-054, plan 7-64728-2025.
• Sheyla Yavisia Barnett Herman, Vista Mar I settlement, plan 7-53720-2023, 314 m².
• Carlos Luis Mendoza Mendoza, María Paula Bonilla settlement, plot 2, plan 7-56467-2024, 8,070 m².
• Félix Rodrigo Villegas Solano, Río Banano settlement, plot 92-8, plan L-46202-2026, 218.55 m².
• Eduardo Guillermo Arce Bojorge, Vista Mar I settlement, plot 62, plan L-725571-1988, 1,403.70 m².
• Luis Alberto Rocha Vásquez, Vista Mar II settlement, plot 78-1, plan L-1568546-2012, 532 m².
• Guillermo Alberto Espinoza Ramírez, Siquirres office, San Carlos settlement, plan L-625160-2000, 108 hectares and 2,825 m².

Deadlines, appeals, and place to appear

The terms set in the two notices are different and should not be confused:

• Ten days, counting from the day following the notification, for any party interested in the regularization requests to state their case at the corresponding territorial office or at the Huetar Caribe Development Region, in Batán, Limón province.
• Five business days to file a motion for revocation before the INDER Board of Directors and, subsidiarily, an appeal before the Superior Agrarian Court, in the case of the Sixaola summary process.
• Publication of three consecutive edicts in the Official Gazette, as a means of notification for those with no known address.
• Inquiries and case management through the regional legal advisory, via email at mrojass@inder.go.cr.

The decision is important because it defines who retains land ownership in settlements of the Costa Rican Caribbean: on one hand, it restores the expectation of possessory families who have worked abandoned plots for decades; on the other, it subjects the original grantees to a short deadline to defend themselves or lose the property. The thirteen procedures in Batán and Siquirres, added to the Sixaola case, cover areas ranging from parcels of 218 square meters to estates of more than one hundred hectares, a volume that anticipates significant registry movements in the region in the coming months.

Source: La Gaceta, No. 213 of Tuesday, November 10, 2026, notifications section of the Rural Development Institute, p. 69 (official references: IN202601138072 and IN202601138074).