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Roughly 60% of Las Alturas is virgin rain forest, the balance consists of a cattle and dairy ranch, an abandoned coffee plantation, saw mill (operative but without comercial use), machine shop and the village of Las Alturas. There is also a secondary forest that is being reforested and allowed to recuperate back as part of the balance.
The village has a general store, school, church and housing. Around 100 people of various nationalities live there, including over 40 school age children.
The village consists of farm workers and their families. Its population includes: cattle ranch, reforestation, stable, apiculture and nursery workers; militia who protect the forest and community from game and flora poachers, squatters, and transients; maintenance crews for machinery, vehicles, other apparatus and the physical plant; and other infrastructure employees who run the general store, school, mess hall, bar and oversee the administration of the town, farm, forest and personnel.
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| A newly reconstructed residence at Las Alturas. |
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The principal and sustaining income had been timbering—until the current owner assumed possession in early 2000 and ceased such operations.
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