Peru ~ Cerro Blanco
Process: Natural
Region: San Martin
Certifications: Organically Grown, Fair Trade
Reminds us of:  Fruity, raspberry jello, watermelon, pineapple
About This Coffee
In the community of La Victoria, within the San Martín region of Peru, coffee farming has been a cherished tradition passed down through generations. In 2020, local families came together to form the Cerro Blanco Producers Association (APROCEB), named after the iconic white sand mountain that surrounds them. Eleva Finca's mission is to preserve this coffeegrowing heritage with a strong commitment to environmental sustainability and collective development, offering high-quality coffee to the world.
Peru is made up of a wide variety of landscapes, from long beaches to high mountains, from the desert to the largest rain forest. In the north, the second highest mountain rage, the Andes, goes through Cajamarca department and converges with the Amazon, creating complex and diverse orographies and microclimates. Cajamarca’s inter-Andean valleys have hosted coffee crops for more than 200 years and concentrate almost 43% of the total Peruvian coffee production, not only because of its vast lands but because of an ancient coffee tradition that goes back to the XVIII century, when the first coffee crops were brought in and started to be nurtured by the many generations of producers in the region. Coffee has been part of their lives for so long that their inhabitants’ experiences and learnings are inextricably linked to it.