March 15% Off Discount Automatically Applied at Checkout Roast: Medium Tasting Profile: Salted caramel, silky sweet, citrus Grower: Asociacion de Productores Cafetaleros Juan Marco El Palto Variety: Caturra, Bourpon, Catuai, Pache, & Catimor Region: Piura, Amazonas, Peru Altitude: 1100-1700 M Soil Type: Clay Minerals Process: Gully washed and dried in the sun. Details: Located in northern Peru in the Amazonian Andes, this coop began with just 35 small farmers in 2003. The Asociacion de Productores Cafetaleros Juan Marco El Palto (JUMARP) is also known as simply "El Palto." There are 40 women of the current 189 coop members, with approximately 550 hectares of organic and Fair Trade Certified coffee in production. Like their male counterparts, female members are represented on the El Palto Coop Board of Directors, whose mission it is to increase production and profitability in specialty coffee to increase each member family’s income.