The southern, main entrance.

The community covers about 2500 hectares (6200 acres). It's big, but most of it is too broken up to be used intensively. The land used to be an hacienda, or plantation, owned by one man. It is now owned in common by the thirty resident families. Together, they work a couple of big farming areas, two citrus orchards, and several large fenced-in pasture areas (for sheep, and recently, a small herd of cattle). Each family also has animals of its own; most plant a couple hectares of corn somewhere up in the hills and maintain a smaller garden, closer to home.

Back in the hacienda days the property was called 'Villa Hermosa'; this is still its working name, but most of us who live there call it Imi ("small water" in Guaraní, named after a tiny but famously reliable spring back in the mountains).

There is a famous waterfall at the intersection of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina (featured prominently in the movie 'The Mission'), called Iguazu. "Iguazu" derives from the Guaraní Iguasu, which means "big water".