TURIS AGRO NELPO S.A. was founded by Juanita Pozo and David Nelson in 1985 to exploit the agricultural and tourism potential of a 50 acre farm, 20 miles northeast of Quito, the capital of Ecuador. The farm, which is located in the Andes mountains just one-half mile south of the equator at 7900 feet altitude, has a perfect climate and spectacular scenery as well as gravity-fed irrigation from snowmelt water of Cayambe volcano, just 15 miles away.