Hacienda Zuleta
Angochagua, Imbabura, Ecuador
Location
Angochagua
In the Angochagua valley in Imbabura, the northern Andean highlands at around two thousand nine hundred metres, around two hours north of Quito and thirty to forty minutes from Otavalo, on a four-thousand-acre working farm.
Transfer
A Quito transfer
Around two hours north of Quito, UIO, up into the Imbabura highlands — thirty to forty minutes from Otavalo and its famous market.
Villas
Around 21 rooms
Around twenty-one rooms in the historic main building, each with a wood-burning fireplace, antique furniture, hand-embroidered Zuleta linens and family heirlooms — antique-filled rooms on a 1691 working hacienda.
Best For
Who it suits
Couples, families and riders wanting immersive Andean heritage — a 1691 working hacienda held by one family for a century, full-board home cooking from a four-thousand-acre organic farm, riding the hacienda's own horse breed and a condor conservation project.
Board Basis
Full board
A full-board base with home cooking and most activities included — a communal table of Andean cooking from the four-thousand-acre farm, with its own dairy, cheese factory and trout.
Overview
A 1691 colonial working hacienda in the Andes
Hacienda Zuleta is a 1691 colonial working hacienda in the Andean highlands, two hours north of Quito in the Angochagua valley of Imbabura, at around two thousand nine hundred metres — owned by the family of former president Galo Plaza Lasso for over a century. Around twenty-one antique rooms in the historic main building each carry a wood-burning fireplace, antique furniture, hand-embroidered Zuleta linens and family heirlooms. Full-board home cooking comes from the four-thousand-acre organic farm, with its own dairy, cheese factory and trout, served at a communal table, and most activities are included. Days run to riding the hacienda's own Zuleteno horse breed across more than sixty kilometres of trails, the Condor Huasi project that returns Andean condors and spectacled bears to the wild, cheese-making, embroidery with the village women, pre-Inca mounds on the estate and tea with the family. Massage is on request, the fireside rooms warm against the highland air, and Otavalo and its famous market are thirty to forty minutes away. It is around two hours from Quito, on a full-board base — made for couples, families and riders who want immersive Andean heritage on a living farm. The valley sits in Imbabura, the province of lakes and volcanoes, with Otavalo's famous indigenous market thirty to forty minutes away and the snow peaks of the northern Andes on the horizon.
Accommodation
Rooms
Around twenty-one antique rooms in the historic main building each carry a wood-burning fireplace, antique furniture, hand-embroidered Zuleta linens and family heirlooms. They sit in a 1691 colonial hacienda held by the family of a former president for over a century, warm against the highland air.
Entry
Standard Room
Sleeps two. With a wood-burning fireplace, antiques, hand-embroidered Zuleta linens and a desk, over the garden or countryside.
FireplaceAntiques
Family
Superior Family Room
Sleeps two to four. A larger room with a fireplace and countryside views.
FireplaceFamily
Top
Suite
Sleeps two. A historic room with a fireplace and antiques, over the countryside or garden.
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Food & Drink
Dining
Full-board home cooking comes from the four-thousand-acre organic farm, with its own dairy, cheese factory and trout, served at a communal table, and most activities are included. It is Andean farm-to-table at its source, the kitchen drawn straight from the estate.
Signature
The communal table
The communal table, Andean home cooking from the four-thousand-acre farm.
Farm
Farm produce
Farm produce, its own dairy, cheese and trout.
Full-board
Full board
Full board, most activities included.
Wellbeing
Farm & fireside
Massage is on request, with wood-burning fireplaces warming the rooms and the hacienda's farm and conservation projects filling the days. Wellness here is the highland life itself — riding, fireside evenings and the working rhythm of a four-thousand-acre farm.
Massage
Massage, on request.
Fireside rooms
Fireside rooms, with wood-burning fireplaces.
Riding
Riding, the Zuleteno horse breed.
Activities & Experiences
Signature Experiences
Riding, the farm and conservation define a stay — ride the hacienda's own Zuleteno horse breed across more than sixty kilometres of trails, visit the Condor Huasi project returning condors and bears to the wild, try cheese-making and embroidery, and explore the pre-Inca mounds on the estate. Tea with the family closes the day in Andean tradition. Otavalo's great market and the lakes and volcanoes of Imbabura lie within reach of the estate.
Zuleteño horses
Zuleteno horses, the hacienda's own breed.
Cóndor Huasi
Condor Huasi, condor and bear conservation.
Cheese-making
Cheese-making, and embroidery.
Pre-Inca mounds
Pre-Inca mounds, on the estate.
Tea with the family
Tea with the family, an Andean tradition.
Getting There
Location & transfers
By road
From Quito (UIO)
Around two hours north of Quito into the Imbabura highlands.
In the highlands
Angochagua
In the Angochagua valley on a four-thousand-acre working farm, near Otavalo.
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Board basis
- A full-board base, with most activities included.
Altitude
- Around two thousand nine hundred metres in the highlands.
Made for families
- Made for families, couples and riders.
Getting there
- Around two hours from Quito, UIO.
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