Guatemala

Huehuetenango

Department · Guatemala

Terroir

Catalogue altitude
1,200–2,200 m · 65 of 199 catalogue coffees report altitude. 2 of those 65 have a recorded range partly or wholly outside this band. This sample does not establish the full growing range.
Climate
Ranges from mountain peaks with freezing temperatures to tropical lowland rainforest
Terrain
Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountain range with significant elevation variation
Soil
Cretaceous carbonates and paleozoic metamorphic rocks
Varieties
Bourbon · Caturra · Geisha · Catuaí
Base process
Washed · Natural · Honey
Conditions and additional steps
Anaerobic (sealed, no oxygen)

By 1883 had 248 coffee plantations producing 7334 quintals; coffee grown on warm lower slopes alongside sugarcane, tobacco, chili

5 growing areas

Administrative area

Across Huehuetenango179 coffees with no finer area recorded