Bought by region
We contract inside named growing regions and appellations — Valdesia, Cerrado Mineiro, Highland Huehuetenango, Montecillos — not by port mark.
Green coffee · wholesale & home roasters
Nine origins, mapped to the growing region — not the country. Verified elevation, varietal, harvest window and grading on every offer, and a technical sheet that travels with the lot from the mill to your roaster.
How we source
Most green coffee is sold by country. A country is not a flavour. Elevation, varietal, processing and the specific valley do the work — so that is what we publish, and what we will not publish is anything a source cannot support.
We contract inside named growing regions and appellations — Valdesia, Cerrado Mineiro, Highland Huehuetenango, Montecillos — not by port mark.
Grade, screen, moisture, density, process, harvest and cup score on every lot. Where a figure is unverifiable at origin, we say so rather than round it off.
Home roasters buy the bag. Roasteries buy the pallet or the container. Same coffee, same sheet, same traceability at either volume.
Cafentity also builds the brand around the bean — label and packaging design, white-label roasting, site and marketing — if you want more than green coffee.
Origin atlas
Each map shows every department in the country. Shaded units grow coffee; select a region to see which ones it covers, and what the published record actually says about it.
Elevation & flavour
Altitude drives bean density, and density drives how a coffee behaves under heat. It is also what most producing countries grade on — SHB in Guatemala, SHG in Honduras, screen-linked grades in Colombia and Brazil are all, at root, altitude proxies.
The one systematic study of a single origin we could verify — 60+ GPS-tagged Puerto Rican samples — found altitude worth roughly two cupping points across the bands.
Read this as a density tendency, not a promise. Varietal, processing, soil and mill work move a cup as far as altitude does — which is why every Cafentity lot carries its own cupping notes rather than inheriting the band's.
Technical sheets
One sheet per lot, issued at contract and updated on arrival. It is what your QC needs to book the coffee in, and what your customers need when they ask where it came from.
Fixed fields come from the origin record on this page. Fields marked [per lot] are filled from the pre-shipment sample and the arrival re-cup.
Grading reference
Grade names do not translate across borders. SHB is an altitude band, Supremo is a screen size, and NY 2/3 is a defect count — they are not comparable, and a supplier who implies they are is selling you something.
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Where a published band varies between sources — Guatemala's SHB floor moves up to 250 m depending on who you ask — we contract on the stated altitude, not the letters.
Ordering
Pick an origin or take the full origin set. Each sample arrives with the lot's technical sheet so you can cup against the numbers.
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For home roasters and small roasteries. Buy from the shop at listed prices, in the origin's own bag size.
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Pallet, full-container and forward contracts, with spot availability from our warehouse position and fixed-price bookings against the harvest.
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Questions
Cafentity sells green coffee from nine origins: Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica and Peru. Within each origin we contract inside named growing regions and appellations rather than buying by country mark — 64 mapped regions in total, from Café de Valdesia in the Dominican Republic to Boquete in Panama's Chiriquí highlands.
They measure different things. SHB (Guatemala) and SHG (Honduras) are altitude bands — roughly 1,350 m and above. Supremo and Excelso (Colombia) are screen sizes: Supremo is at least 95% retained over screen 17. NY 2/3 (Brazil) is a defect count — Tipo 2 allows four defects per 300 g sample. A Brazilian designation stacks three separate axes: type, screen and cup, as in “Santos NY 2/3, screen 17/18, Strictly Soft Fine Cup”.
Both. Home roasters and small roasteries buy single bags and small lots from the shop at listed prices. Wholesale buyers order by the pallet, the container or on forward contract. [INSERT: MOQ and price bands]
Yes. Each lot ships with a sheet covering producer and mill identity, region and altitude, grade and screen distribution, moisture, water activity, density, defect count on the origin's own scale, SCA score with descriptors and the sample roast profile, plus harvest date, processing method, lot ID and ICO mark. The sheet is issued at contract and updated after the arrival re-cup.
Harvest runs roughly August–January in Puerto Rico, October–May in the Dominican Republic, November–April in Honduras, December–April in Guatemala, May–September in Brazil, and in Colombia twice a year — September–December in the centre and north with a April–June mitaca, while the southern departments run March–June as their main crop. Panama runs December–March, Costa Rica November–March, and Peru April–September with the peak in June and July. Arrival at warehouse follows by roughly two to four months.
Every figure is sourced from a national coffee institute, a government or appellation document, or a USDA report — Anacafé, IHCAFE, the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, USDA FAS and NASS, the Valdesia PDO and Barahona DO specifications, Ley 78-2019 in Puerto Rico, and INPI's Brazilian geographical indications. Sources are listed at the foot of this page. Where a figure could not be verified, or published sources conflict, the page says so instead of picking a number.
Send us your volume, your roast style and the profiles you are short of. We will come back with current availability, sample sets and pricing across all nine origins.
Administrative boundaries are drawn from Natural Earth (public domain) and, for Puerto Rico's municipios, US Census cartographic boundary files. Coffee region definitions follow each country's own institute or appellation registry. Nothing on this page is estimated; where a published source could not confirm a figure, the figure is omitted or flagged.
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