farm: El Cerro

variety: pacamara

process: washed

altotude: 1500 

regioon: Apaneca Ilamatepec Sonsonate, Ahuachapan, El Salvador

harvest: detsember - veebruar

This washed Pacamara from the El Cerro farm is produced in the shade of trees. They ensure that the coffee trees are well nourished and that the cherries develop as well as possible.

During the harvest period, between December and February, pickers are trained to select only fully ripe cherries. This allows El Cerro and its producer Fernando Leto to offer you the full potential of this coffee.

This taste for perfection can also be found in the process, which is carried out directly on the farm. Here, a washed process. This process is carried out directly on the farm, to ensure total monitoring of production, from planting to export of the coffees.

El Cerro is a farm located on the Apaneca llamatepec mountain range, near the town of Apaneca. The altitude of El Cerro is ideal for producing excellent speciality coffees. It has been in the family of Fernando "Leto" Escobar for 5 generations.

12 people work at El Cerro all year round. At harvest time, around thirty seasonal workers join them to pick the cherries by hand and process them at the El Cerro wetmill.

Although the entire farm is dedicated to coffee production, it is surrounded by a dense forest with a rich biodiversity. The coffee trees grow under the shade of indigenous trees

that were there long before the farm was built. This forest provides plenty of moisture and nutrients to the soil, generating compost whose nutrients are carried to the foot of the coffee trees by the rain.