The Jaguar - La Tribu Cooperative, Chiapas

Origin: Mexico
Region: Jaltenango
Producer: Associated Cooperatives Café la Tribu
Variety: Bourbon, Typica, Caturra
Height: 1500 – 1800 masl
Cultivation: Sustainable, under the shade of trees.
Process: Washing
Roasting: Half
Punctuation: 84
Grades: Chocolate, Plum, Hazelnut.

The Tribe Cooperative

Café la Tribu is a network of cooperatives that work in a coordinated manner with a common main objective: “to make coffee growing a dignified form of progress and development for the families that depend on this crop in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas.”

Within this network, the Fundadores Coffee Cooperatives, Reserva 1920 and Cafés Especiales SPR participate. Together, they group 539 farming families with a production capacity of approximately 23,240 Qq on 1,907 hectares. They work their crops in harmony with Mother Nature, under the organic production system, with coffee plantations managed under diversified shade.

These plots are located (1,500 - 1,800 meters above sea level) within the buffer zone of a Protected Natural Area (ANP) & El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve. Between mountains covered in a forest covered in fog, the song of the quetzal can be heard, a sacred bird for the Aztecs and the Mayans. This corner of the southeast of the country is one of the few places where you can see this bird flying, which inspired the myth of the feathered serpent that has so marked the culture of the country. The quetzal (in addition to the jaguar, ocelot, tapir and the thousands of species that depend on these ecosystems) was a key piece for this area, of almost 120 thousand hectares, to be declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1990. Much of the natural wealth is due to the amount of water that circulates through the region. The mountains full of trees act as a sponge that absorbs all the humidity of the Pacific Ocean, resulting in a large amount of fog and rain.

These geographical conditions favour the production of a high-quality coffee, with higher yield and better characteristics in: acidity, aroma and body.