Lake Atitlán

Which Lake Atitlán coffees can Ceiba discuss?

These names are farms, cooperatives, and one flavored blend from around Lake Atitlán. Ceiba can talk about importing one of them. None of them is for sale on this website.

These names are not for sale on this website. Send a question and name the lot, and Ceiba can talk about importing it. The names come from project notes about farms and cooperatives around the lake. They are not a claim that anyone else owns the farms, and they are not a Ceiba product.

Can I order these coffees on this website?

These names are not for sale on this website. Send a question and name the lot, and Ceiba can talk about importing it.

What does Ajtí mean?

Dictionaries do not define Ajtí as the K’iche’ word for coffee. The recorded K’iche’ word is kape, a loan from Spanish. Tz’utujil, the language of San Juan La Laguna, also uses kape.

Ajtí Reserve

Project notes use this name for a fully washed microlot from La Voz que Clama en el Desierto, in San Juan La Laguna. The notes say Bourbon, shade-grown, about 1,500–1,700 meters, and drying on raised beds.

The cooperative’s importer sheet is different on two points. It lists Típica, Bourbon, and Caturra at about 1,300–1,550 meters, and it says the coffee is patio-dried. The photograph shows those patios. Both ranges sit inside the wider lakeshore, which published profiles put at about 1,400–1,800 meters, with higher farms above that.

Dictionaries do not define Ajtí as the K’iche’ word for coffee. The recorded K’iche’ word is kape, a loan from Spanish. Tz’utujil, the language of San Juan La Laguna, also uses kape. Allen Christenson’s K’iche’-English dictionary records kape and marks it as Spanish. The Academy of Mayan Languages uses kape in its Tz’utujil vocabulary, as in nukape, "my coffee." A café in San Juan is named Ta’ Kape. Nearby K’iche’ words such as ajtij mean teacher, not coffee.

Rosa Las Maries

Project notes name a family plot in San Juan La Laguna, grown by Rosa and her family, at about 1,650–1,800 meters. The varieties named are Bourbon and Caturra, washed and sun-dried.

The town’s public café list includes Café Las Marías. Ceiba has not confirmed that the café and the family plot are the same place. That elevation sits in the upper half of the regional band.

Manue Marvin

Project notes name an independent grower on hillside plots above San Pedro La Laguna, at about 1,600–1,750 meters. The varieties named are Bourbon and Pache.

The process named is honey: some of the fruit mucilage stays on the seed while it dries, instead of being washed off. That is a different cup from the patio-dried washed coffee at La Voz.

San Juan Lot 77

Project notes describe a San Juan lot of Bourbon and Caturra, fully washed, shade-grown, at about 1,550 meters. The cup language in the notes is chocolate, citrus, and honey.

1,550 meters is inside both the La Voz importer range and the regional Atitlán band. The notes do not name the grower.

Jaguar Estate

Project notes place a washed, sun-dried coffee on the volcanic slopes of Lake Atitlán at about 1,500–1,800 meters. That range matches the regional profile. The notes do not name a town.

The same notes disagree on variety. One list says Bourbon and Caturra. Another adds Geisha and Pache. Ceiba can ask about a lot with either profile. This page does not treat the estate name as a confirmed farm.

Miel y Cacao

This one is not a farm. Project notes describe a roasted coffee with honey and cacao added. Ceiba can discuss a honey-and-cacao coffee for someone who wants that cup.

It is a blend, not a single-grower microlot. This site does not publish a price for it.

Project notes reviewed 23 October 2026. Public checks the same day: Christenson K’iche’-English dictionary; Academy Tz’utujil vocabulary; San Juan café list; Traditional Atitlán regional profile; the La Voz photograph and sources.