There's a new region in Guatemala, baby... Acatenango!

Acatenango, in the department of Chimaltenango, is a new region and at the end of last year it became the 8th coffee region being strongly promoted by ANACAFE.
It is over 5,000 hectares of mountains, hills and volcanic slopes almost covered completely with coffee trees and shade trees. The coffee varieties being mostly bourbon, with some Catuai and Caturra grown in the volcanic and pumice soil. The coffee may grow as high as 2,100 meters in this region on the slopes of the Acatenango volcano which is Central America’s third highest volcano.

Average rainfall is 48 to 72 inches and the temperature ranges between 14 and 31 degrees Celsius. The harvest takes place between mid January and March. There is a large population of Kaqchiquels still settled there and most of the coffee comes from small producers. There are 4,000 producers currently growing coffee in Acatenango in a very traditional way. Coffee first was planted in this region in the 1880’s.

Our Acatenango arrived recently and you will find this coffee to have a silky body, along with coconut and floral notes.