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Hacienda Candelaria lies about 50km in NorthWest of San Jose, near the town of Palmares in Alajuela, West Valley. The 60 hectare estate was established in 1965 by Otto Kloeti and still today is managed as a family business. The family Estate Hacienda Candelaria is moving towards high quality proce..

El Amate is the name for of a species of tree that has grown on this land for many years. Locally, this type of tree is known as a “water tree” because it only lives in relatively wet microclimates. Walfre inherited his land from his parents, who also passed along years of knowledge about the coff..