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
Your customers will taste where it grew.
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.
Farm-direct · 9 origins
- Origins
- 9 —
- Mapped regions
- 43 Appellations, denominations and producing zones
- Buy as
- Bag or pallet Sample, single bag, full-container wholesale
- Every lot ships with
- A spec sheet Grade, screen, moisture, density, process, cup score
How we source
Origin is a place, not a flag on a label.
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.
Your staff can answer “why is this one more expensive?”
Grade, screen, moisture, density, process, harvest and cup score on every lot — so the story on your menu board is true, and the person pouring it knows why. Where a figure is unverifiable at origin, we say so rather than round it off.
Start with one bag, not one season
Cup it before you commit. Home roasters buy the bag; roasteries buy the pallet or the container — same coffee, same sheet, same traceability at either volume. Tell us the profile you’re chasing and we’ll send green to cup.
The rest of the business too
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
Pick an origin. Then pick the mountain.
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.
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Selected region
Coffee-growing
Other departments
Elevation & flavour
The one axis that organises the whole trade.
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
Every lot arrives documented.
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.
- 01Identity — producer or co-op, farm or mill, region, municipality, altitude as contracted.
- 02Green analysis — screen distribution, moisture, water activity, density, defect count on the origin's own scale.
- 03Sensory — SCA score, descriptors, and the roast profile the sample was cupped on, so your results are comparable to ours.
- 04Chain — harvest date, processing, drying method, ICO mark, lot ID, warehouse and arrival date.
Lot technical sheet
TEMPLATE — FIELD LAYOUT
- Origin
- Guatemala
- Region
- Highland Huehuetenango
- Department
- Huehuetenango
- Altitude
- 1,524–1,981 m
- Grade
- SHB EP
- Screen
- 15/16 up
- Process
- Fully washed
- Varietal
- Bourbon, Caturra, Catuaí
- Harvest
- Jan – Apr
- Moisture
- [per lot]
- Water activity
- [per lot]
- Density
- [per lot]
- SCA score
- [per lot]
- Descriptors
- [per lot]
- Producer
- [per lot]
- Lot ID / ICO
- [per lot]
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
Nine origins, nine different ways of saying “good”.
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.
| Origin | Graded on | Top grade | The scale |
|---|
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
Three ways to buy, one standard.
Samples
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.
Tell us which origins you want on the table and we will confirm sample sizes, prices and shipping with the offer.
Single bags & small lots
For home roasters and small roasteries. In the origin's own bag size, quoted on request until our online shop opens. Green coffee for home roasters →
Bag size follows each origin’s convention, and price moves with the harvest. Ask us what is arriving and we will quote it.
Wholesale & contracts
Pallet, full-container and forward contracts, sold FOB origin today with a US warehouse coming soon, and fixed-price bookings against the harvest.
Minimums, warehouse position, lead times and payment terms are set per contract. Send us your volume and roasting calendar and we will answer all four.
Request a wholesale quote
Ask what is in stock
Tell us your volume and we will reply with current availability.
Questions
What roasters ask us first.
What green coffee origins does Cafentity sell?
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.
What is the difference between SHB, SHG, Supremo and NY 2/3?
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”.
Can I buy a single bag, or is there a minimum order?
Both. Home roasters and small roasteries can buy single bags and small lots, quoted at the day's market until our online shop opens. Wholesale buyers order by the pallet, the container or on forward contract. Wholesale minimums are set per contract around your volume and roasting calendar, not a fixed floor. Tell us what you need and we will quote it.
Does every lot come with a technical sheet?
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.
When does each origin arrive?
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.
Where does the origin data on this page come from?
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.
Tell us what you roast. We will tell you what is landing.
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.
Become a Cafentity trade partner
Buying green coffee, private label or distribution volumes from us? Every trade partner completes a short verification before we issue contracts, pro-formas or samples. It protects both sides and speeds up shipment.
Why we verify
Know-your-customer checks are standard in international coffee trade. They keep payments, export documents and contracts clean for you, your bank and ours.
Have these ready
- Passport or ID card of the legal representative
- Certificate of incorporation or commercial registry extract
- Tax or business registration certificate
- Proof of the company’s address (less than 3 months old)
- Bank letter confirming the account in the company’s name
- Shareholder or owner list
How it works
About 15 minutes online. Upload documents securely, sign electronically, and our team reviews within 1–2 business days.
Start registration Already invited by our team? Use the link in your email instead.
About this data
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.
CAFENTITY · THE COMPLETE COFFEE PARTNER
Sources
Want the story behind our Caribbean roots? Read the origins guide →
