Café Las Flores

Overview

Café Las Flores is a three-generation Palazio family operation that grows, processes, roasts, distributes and serves 100% Nicaraguan Arabica from its farms on the slopes of Mombacho Volcano outside Granada. Beyond the farms, the company runs a chain of café-restaurants across Nicaragua, exports to the United States, Canada, Chile, El Salvador and Germany, has been a UN Global Compact participant since 2014, and operates an ecotourism canopy zipline through the Mombacho coffee plantations.

Known for

• Three-generation Palazio family vertical operation — farm, processing, roasting, retail
• 100% Nicaraguan-grown Arabica from Mombacho Volcano slopes near Granada
• Café-restaurant chain distributed nationally across Nicaragua
• Exports to US, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Germany
• UN Global Compact participant since 2014
• Mombacho ecotourism — canopy zipline tours across the volcano coffee plantations

Why it matters

Café Las Flores is the most visible Nicaraguan producer-roaster brand: a three-generation family operation that combines a working volcanic-soil estate with a national café chain, an export program reaching five countries, and an ecotourism arm that gives hundreds of thousands of visitors a year their first physical experience of a Central American coffee farm. For a country whose specialty industry is overwhelmingly green-export-driven, Las Flores anchors a domestic and tourist-facing presence at scale.

Production

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roastery location

Managua, Nicaragua

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Café

This roaster operates a café.

Recognitions

• Rainforest Alliance certified
• UN Global Compact participant (2014–present)

Sources

• https://cafelasflores.com/about/
• https://cafelasflores.com/about-us/
• https://cafelasflores.com/
• https://www.amazon.com/stores/Caf%C3%A9LasFlores/P%C3%A1ginadeinicio/page/873615F7-F831-44F8-BADE-8E33D1EBCC5D
• https://backpackertravel.org/food-drinks/learning-nicaraguan-coffee-cafe-las-flores/