Condos for Sale in Canoa, Manabi, Ecuador

The Senderos Features 2 Five-Story Oceanfront Buildings

Canoa is an Ecuadorian coastal village clothed in a chameleon’s skin. It is the genie’s lamp fulfilling seemingly unlimited wishes. One day Canoa is misty, breezy, refreshingly cool and romantically moody. One day it is lush green and flowering, the ocean colored countless shades of blue with random shadows cast down from the big clouds backed against the Andes. Is your wish for quiet dining under the palms where a river empties into the sea? Or is it to dance in the sand? Is your wish to surf? To read quietly under the shade of a bamboo cabana? Life in Canoa is all about expecting the unexpected, living beyond the scope of the several wishes we imagined.

Those of us who have come to call Canoa home imagined a life without the stress of eight-lane traffic. We came from Los Angeles, imagining a cleaner sky. We slogged through the slush in Boston and imagined a hammock strung between the palms. We came from Panama, where it was too damn hot. We came from Sweden, where we left for work and returned from work in the dark. We came from Manitoba, where we imagined, well, anything but Manitoba. We bought our tickets and got on the plane from Holland, England, Spain, Alaska, Texas, Alabama,wanting to run a beach bar, a hostal, a yacht club, a jewelry shop, wanting to sit in a swinging chair and walk the beach and pick up shells and beads and turn up shards of pottery from pre-Columbian times and not run anything at all outside ourselves. Some of us built ourselves a house. Some of us came from Kentucky and from Tennessee and built a luxury hotel. And then one day the hands-down finest builder in Canoa got together with the founder of Ecuador’s green-building association and decided to create Senderos, what will no doubt prove to be Canoa’s hands-down finest possibility for condominium living.

Senderos, located in Canoa - Manabi, features two five-story buildings combining Spanish style with native materials and modern convenience. The tile and solar panel roof system is an excellent embodiment of elegance and function; the durable terracotta tiles blending nicely with the colors of the sand, beach and the cliffs, the solar panels serving to heat the water for the entire building. Every room faces to the ocean and has been designed to capture the ocean’s constant breeze, thereby eliminating the need for air-conditioning, though of course air-conditioning may be provided as it is desired. An assortment of beautifully finished native hardwoods and bamboo accent the stucco walls and ample windows. Every buyer has the option of selecting materials and arranging the interior space of each of the apartments as he pleases. One early buyer has decided to buy the space for two apartments and combine them. With prices coming in well under those you might expect to pay in Mexico, Costa Rica, or Panama, you might find buying such a space to be surprisingly well within your reach. Internet? Yes. TV? Yes. Pool? Yes. Bar? Yes. Restaurant? Yes. Security? Yes. Parking? Yes. Access? Easier every day, which is why you would be wise not to wait on securing your place in the Senderos. With the completion of a bridge from neighboring Bahia, Canoa’s growth and increased real estate values jumped immediately. With the pending completion of an airport in nearby San Vicente, that growth and value is certain to jump even higher.

So where are you now? In the eighth lane of traffic, jockeying for the off-ramp? Under the smog? In the dark? Manitoba? Imagine yourself in Canoa Beach, Senderos, friends and family, your feet up on the bamboo railing of your balcony, something cold to drink, waiting on the “green flash” when the sky has gone to orange and crimson at sunset. The frigate birds ride the thermals on the cliffs. The pelicans coast through the troughs of the waves. That could be your daughter or your son out there on a surfboard. That could be you. You could be speaking Spanish. We didn’t really know what we would find here when we bought our tickets. Probably we woke up knowing that today, and every other day, we weren’t growing any younger. We knew prices weren’t going down. We sat and watched the news and heard ourselves say I should, I wish I could, I can’t, and then we did. We landed in Quito, maybe, and toured the largest colonial capitol in South America. We traveled higher in the mountains and sat in a cloud-forest hot spring at twelve-thousand feet. The clouds parted up there and we saw the glaciers on Antisana. We were surprised to know that there were glaciers on Ecuador. We headed to the beach and were surprised to find a place where folks from Oregon and Wisconsin gathered together to enjoy a little friendly betting on the Rose Bowl. Now imagine yourself coming home to the Senderos from that game or from your night out dining and dancing. The lights of the fishing boats are out there on the darkened water, bringing in their catch for the morning market. You go to bed and dream to the sound of wind chimes and the surf, the beach. Maybe you wake and have your coffee on the balcony and work some hours on your computer. Maybe you see your children off to school. Maybe you go to the market to buy your fish and talk to the vender in his language and tell him he’s got a hell of a country here, you only wished you’d come here sooner… So where are you? Come on down to Ecuador. Come to Canoa. Come to the Beach. Come to the—Senderos…