Finca Kampura, Guatemala | 100% Ritual Drinking Cacao

Now in two options: 8oz | 227g, or 1 lb | 454g

Notes: apricot blossom, grapefruit, citrus zest, honeyed, dried berries, toffee, subtle warm spices and sweet tobacco.

Country of Origin: Guatemala

Region: Izabal, Guatemala

Farm: Finca Kampura

Farm owner & Manager: Rodrigo Sevilla

The Farm Story: Finca Kampura

In Izabal, near the Carribean coast of Guatemala, 800 hectares that were once worn cattle pasture are now a vibrant, multilayered forest ecosystem. The transformation began in 2011, when Rodrigo and his team set out to rebuild what had been lost. Since then, they've planted more than 700,000 trees across its rolling hills, restoring soil health with mahogany, native rubber, and Honduran rosewood standing alongside heirloom cacao and cardamom.

The name Kampura comes from Miskito, a language spoken along nearby Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, where it is said to mean "beautiful woman". The Sevilla family chose the name to mark the quiet resilience and innate attraction of the land itself, and credit the Miskito community for helping shape their understanding of the word.

What makes Finca Kampura's cacao distinct is its unparalleled varietal biodiversity. Over 100 native cacao varieties grow side by side here, including the complete SGU (Guatemala Selection) clone collection, a lineage first identified in the 1960s and preserved in this combination nowhere else. Rather than isolating standout varieties, Kampura ferments them together, exactly as they stand in the field, in centralized wooden fermentation boxes. Drying happens in open sun but under greenhouse cover, protecting the beans from rain while still relying on natural sun exposure. Every batch passes through machine sorting and an onsite quality lab before it leaves Guatemala.

Cacao here grows under a dense mixed forest canopy rather than in open rows, following an approach closer to nature, the way cacao has been tended ancestrally by the Mayan communities on this land. Every step is in partnership with their Qʼeqchiʼ Maya neighbors, built around living-income wages and skills training, with the farm's own leadership drawn from the surrounding community.

Their deep intention has been recognized well outside Izabal. Kampura has placed among the global top 50 at the Cacao of Excellence Awards in both 2023 and 2025, earning a regional bronze medal each of those years, and holds a designation from the Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund, one of fewer than 30 such origins worldwide. Guatemala's National Forest Institute has also recognized the farm for its integral forest management.

Finca Kampura is cacao grown on ground that spent centuries as jungle, only to be torn down for bananaland, then pastureland, before being intentionally rebuilt into a living forest, tree by tree. This is the way forward, rebuilding living systems and vibrant ecologies, and we're proud to partner with them.

Ingredients

100% heritage cacao (100+ native varieties)

A Note on Allergens and Additives

We stone grind our traceable cacao in machines also making delicious things from tree nuts. Apart from that, we do not use emulsifiers like lecithins, or other additives like vanilla.

When we add sugar, it is intentional. We only use traceable, raw, organically and regeneratively grown cane sugar. We add sugar for the purpose of attenuating the innate power of cacao to meet our limited palates, increasing our receptivity to the delight in every morsel.

A Note on Shipping

Shipping is not a profit center for us, and our goal is to pass along the lowest possible rate. That being said, shipping just one bar has outsized costs. We recommend our 3-bar or 6-bar boxes for the best value on shipping.