Can-Jíbaro indigenous organisation pays $500,000 for 15.5 hectares of farmland in Utuado, the town's highest recorded sale price in two years
Organización del Pueblo Indígena Can-Jíbaro de Boriké, Inc. bought a property at Carretera 602 Km 6.6 in Santa Isabel, Utuado, for $500,000, in a sale deed recorded on August 22, 2026. The deed covers 155,485 m2, about 15.5 hectares, which puts the price at $3.22 per m2. The seller is a private party.
The price is the highest on a sale deed recorded in Utuado in the 24 months to August 2026. The next-highest in that window is $330,000, which the same organisation paid in March 2025 for 21,582 m2 in Caguana.
The Puerto Rico Land Use Plan classifies the lot, mapped at 257,546 m2, as specially protected rural land of agricultural value, land kept so it can be used for farming and livestock.
Sales in the neighbourhood and the town
In the 12 months from November 2024 to October 2025, buyers and sellers in the Santa Isabel neighbourhood recorded six sale deeds at a median price of $32,500. The records hold no sale deed for the neighbourhood in the 12 months from November 2023 to October 2024.
Across Utuado, the municipality recorded 263 sale deeds in the 12 months from November 2024 to October 2025, fewer than the 279 of the 12 months before that. Its median sale price over those months was $60,480, about the same as the $60,000 of the earlier 12 months.
