Finca El Rincon
La Libertad

La Libertad is the largest town in the department of Petén, in northern Guatemala. This landlocked area, 200 metres above sea level, lies at the bottom of a rift surrounded by high mountains. It is in the heart of these mountains, at an altitude of over 1,300 metres, that the coffee-growing areas are located. The terroir of La Libertad is one of the highest in the Huehuetenango appellation, giving this coffee a much greater complexity than a 'standard' SHB quality, which must at least be produced at altitudes above 1200 meters.

Among the three non-volcanic regions, Huehuetenango stands as the highest and driest area under cultivation. Benefitting from dry, hot winds that sweep into the mountains from Mexico's Tehuantepec plain, the region is shielded from frost, allowing cultivation in Highland Huehue to extend up to 2,000 meters aboe sea level. The remote nature of Huehuetenango practically mandates that all producers process their own coffee.