Two foreign owners spent approximately two decades each facing the challenge of producing in the lands of La Hesperia, with the exploitation of what they considered best to be found in their lands: sugar cane, milling and distilling of brandy. It was a very tough task for both families.
The Czech doctor Karel Vohnout, born in Breno in 1895, arrived in Ecuador around 1930. Already established in Ecuador and in his middle age, he received from his wealthy father-in-law, the Italian Damián Miranda, a large subtropical property, La Esperie, The same that somehow passed from the hands of other Italians, the Liut brothers, to those of Miranda. In particular, Elia Liut, a veteran aviator of the First World War, is well known for being the first aviator to cross the Ecuadorian Andes on the Telegraph I.
Before them, and this by testimony of Vohnout himself, the lands of La Hesperia must have been part of large properties of those who first settled in Santo Domingo like the Frenchman Gachet.