Guatemala Organic Acatenango

Grower 65 farms organized around ASPROGUATE Altitude 1400- 2000 masl Variety Catuai, Caturra Soil Volcanic loam Region Acatenango, Chimaltenango Department, Guatemala Process Fully washed and dried in the sun Harvest November - March Certification Organic   Coffee Background Asociación Sostenible de Productores de Guatemala (ASPROGUATE) is a relatively young organization that unites and empowers small, mostly indigenous coffee grower communities near Lake Atitlán, the Acatenango volcano, and San Martín Jilotepeque, where the association is now headquartered. These three small coffee municipalities together form a triangle in Guatemala’s central highlands and include some of the country’s oldest-established coffee terroirs.ASPROGUATE was founded in 2014 and its current president, don Hermes Pérez Higueros, is the grandson of don José Pérez Rosales, who in 1890 founded one of Guatemala’s first registered coffee estates in Acatenango. So the identity of this group runs