Finca
{{Short description|Estate, rural land or Spanish holiday home}}
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File:Mina de las herrerías desde La Florida del Valle - panoramio.jpg in a finca in Seville]]
Finca ({{IPA|es|ˈfiŋka|}}) is a Spanish term for estate. In English usage,{{cite dictionary |url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/finca |title=Finca |dictionary=Oxford Dictionaries |access-date=November 9, 2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917042648/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/finca |archive-date=17 September 2015}} it refers to a piece of rural or agricultural land, typically with a cottage, farmhouse or estate building present, and often adjacent to a woodland or plantation.
Overview
Especially in tourism, the term has recently gained the colloquial meaning of a holiday home in a rural setting, situated on the Spanish mainland, the Balearics, and the Canary Islands,{{cite dictionary |url=http://dle.rae.es/Finca |title=Finca |author=Real Academia Española |author-link=Real Academia Española |author2=Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española |author2-link=Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española |year=2014 |dictionary=Diccionario de la lengua española |edition=23rd |location=Madrid |publisher=Espasa |isbn=978-84-670-4189-7 |access-date=2019-09-13 |archive-date=2020-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428160325/https://dle.rae.es/finca |url-status=live }} and throughout the countries of Spanish-speaking Latin America.{{cite web |url=https://finca.org/where-we-work/latin-america/?wp-nocache=true |title=Fighting Poverty in Latin America & the Caribbean |work=FINCA International |access-date=13 September 2019 |year=2005 |archive-date=8 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108070432/https://finca.org/where-we-work/latin-america/?wp-nocache=true |url-status=live }}
Fincas can typically look back on an extensive development history, and are often older than 300 years. In some regions, however, especially on the Balearics, new buildings are erected.{{what|date=January 2016}}
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