Lucero

Located between the Caldera River to the east and the Baru Volcano to the west, the small town of Boquete lies at an altitude of around 3,600 feet above sea level in the mountains of Panama.

Close to the town, in the suburb of La Estrella, the 700-acre Lucero residential estate was developed by a Canadian couple who initially purchased a small coffee plantation site with a view to establishing a retreat far away from the pressures of running a family printing business in Ontario.

A decade later, Colleen and Raideep Lal’s little corner of Panamanian Paradise is now shared by an expanding number of homeowners who want to live a sporting lifestyle that revolves around the Lucero Golf & Country Club.

Designed by Mike Poellot and built by the Wadsworth Construction Company, the fairways of the Lucero course (formerly known as Ceilo Paraiso) are laid out on very hilly terrain, offering golfers spectacular views of the Jaramillo and Talamanca Mountain ranges.

The architect isn’t keen to assign a ‘signature hole’ to the layout: “This exquisite property is so vast in extent and is blessed with such natural beauty… that the sequence of all eighteen holes which encompass woodlands, meadowlands, ridgelines and riparian valleys, coupled with dramatic elevation changes, makes for a 'signature' experience.”