Chiapas Coffee Plantation

Grab a tasty cup of the regional coffee and decide on your own why chiapas coffee is the best in mexico.

Chiapas coffee plantation. Since coffee has been introduced into chiapas at the end of the 19th century it has become the major region of coffee cultivation in mexico. We did a coffee tour in chiapas while staying in san cristóbal de las casas where we paid a visit to a local coffee plantation and a mayan cemetery. If you ever go to chiapas take the time to visit this coffee plantation a finca we just went earlier this month may 2008 and had one of the best experiences since living in mexico. More than 70 of mexican coffee plantations are found above 600 meters altitude coupled with microclimates allowing for a higher quality.

In addition the giesemann family grows and exports ornamental flowers. Each plantation produces mexican arabica coffee beans some of the world s most widely renowned mountain grown coffee. If you are a coffee connoisseur then we have something for you. Full of mysticism and magic chiapas is all about beautiful nature archaeological attractions colonial treasures and museums indigenous communities and remote fincas with coffee plantations.

When you book one of these tours you will get to learn about the everyday life on the plantation the process by which that cup of joe makes it to your table every morning and take some majestic hikes through the surrounding hillsides. The next time you visit chiapas participate on the coffee route and witness old coffee plantations with hotels restaurants museums and tours with the possibility of tasting different sorts of coffee. A coffee growing region in the southern state of chiapas has become famous this week for the cultivation of a plant of a different sort coca source of the drug cocaine. In 1982 the total amount of land in mexico used for coffee production was 497 456 hectares.

Take a tour through the network of coffee plantations in chiapas mexico. The farm they are grown on is part of the cesmach cafe ecológico de la sierra madre de chiapas cooperative which was founded in 1994 to resolve the problems farmers experienced when producing coffee beans. Coffee from mexico and chiapas. We stopped by the argovia office in tapachula to book a tour.

High grown coffee is the most sought after and is grown 900 meters above the sea level. This beautiful state located in mexico s southern area was also inhabited by mayan civilization.