Aman unveils Amantaru at Esencia, a Cabo Rojo site bought in 44 deeds
Aman Group unveiled Amantaru, its first destination in Puerto Rico and its fourth in the Caribbean, on a hillside above a secluded beach inside Esencia in Cabo Rojo, Markets of Tomorrow (oftmw.com) reported on November 5, 2026. The resort will come with fully serviced branded residences of three to eight bedrooms, the outlet said.
What the group announced
Esencia is a 2,000-acre low-density, master-planned residential and resort community that Three Rules Capital is developing in partnership with Reuben Brothers, the outlet reported. MASASTUDIO is the architect of the resort and designs the residences, a nearby private airport has a 6,700-foot runway, and Mandarin Oriental has already announced a 106-room resort and residences there.
La Revue des Hôtels (larevuedeshotels.com) reported on November 6, 2026 that the group gave no opening date, no room count and no prices. It quoted residences of 8,968 to 24,904 square feet, about 833 to 2,314 sq m, each with a private pool. The outlet put the community at more than 2 billion dollars of investment, with 500 hotel rooms and suites and 1,200 residences, and said that in August 2026 the developers aimed for first residents and guests by late 2029, a date for the estate as a whole and not for Amantaru.
How the land was assembled
The company that files the community's permit applications recorded 44 purchase deeds in Cabo Rojo between March 29, 2022 and August 19, 2025, and no sale. The largest prices, $8,250,000 each, were on two deeds of May 21, 2024 from two sellers, followed by $7,200,000 on September 13, 2024; the most recent, on August 19, 2025, $4,450,000.
The company's first filings for the project date from May 23, 2024, and it has filed 25 applications in all. A site consultation for the project's main property, filed on November 7, 2025 and recorded as incomplete, described 81 properties covering 1,549 cuerdas, or 6,088,514 square meters. Buildings and streets would cover less than 25% of that land, and the remaining 75% would be green areas, including two golf courses.
A new site consultation, filed on July 13, 2026 and recorded as approved, lists hotel rooms, tourist residences in single-family and multifamily units, a school with student dormitories, golf courses, medical, commercial and entertainment areas, and four public vehicle accesses to the beach. The land is to be grouped and then split into 19 components.
The newest filings under the Esencia name, two applications for a temporary observation platform in Boquerón, were filed on November 6, 2026 and are recorded as incomplete.
Vacation rentals around the site
Within 5 km of that main property, 804 short-term rentals are active, offered by 502 hosts, and 756 of them are entire homes. Their median advertised nightly price over the past 90 days is $191.67.
Larger homes, the closest match to the residences Amantaru will offer, ask more: the 228 listings with three or more bedrooms have a median of $296.75 a night, and the 25 with five or more bedrooms, $593.42.
