Latin American Organic Coffee

There are 56 language families and 73 isolated languages in Latin America-Spanish is but one. (Kaufman 1994)

There are 40 million indigenous people in Latin America who make up 10% of the population. (AILLA)

43% of the 249 independent language groupings in the world are in South America. (Nichols 1992)

There are Chinatowns in Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Buenos Aires, Lima, Panama City, and Caracas.

Smallest Latin American Country: El Salvador. Largest: Brazil (also the one with the highest population density).

In relation to its size, Ecuador (home of the Galapagos Islands) has the greatest biodiversity in the world.

Costa Rica has the lowest unemployment rate in Latin America. (U.N.'s OIT report)

Argentina has the most Nobel Prize winners in Latin America (5 total to their credit).

Chile is the Latin American country with the greatest penetration of Internet, meaning it has the most homes with Internet access.

Over 60 percent of Bolivia's people are Indian, mostly Quechua or Aymara; the rest are European and mixed

Sao Paulo, with some 18 million people, is Brazil's largest city and the world's fifth largest metropolis.

Built on the ruins of the Aztec city Tenochtitlan, Mexico City is currently the world's third largest metropolis after Tokyo and New York City.

Costa Rica is the only country that does not have an army. It was abolished in 1949.

The Driest place on earth is the Atacama Desert, in Argentina. It's a place with virtually no vegetation; in some parts of Atacama Desert, it has never rained!

Peru is the first country which has had a President of Japanese ancestry. From 1990 to 2000, Alberto Kenya Fujimori.

Latinos will usually stand closer together during conversations, so be prepared for that, plus casual touching and, of course, the abrazo, or embrace, among good friends.

Guatemala is the original homeland of the Maya people, one of the largest groups of indigenous societies in the Americas.

Today, the Maya culture extends along the "ruta maya," which runs from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, southward through the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, further south to Guatemala.

El Salvador's flag was adopted in the 1910s. The blue stripes represent unity. The white one symbolizes peace.

Emiliano Zapata, a leading figure in the 1910 Mexican Revolution, was born in Morelos, Chiapas.

There are 80 different indigenous tribes in Colombia, and they speak 64 different languages.

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SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA: Grown for the most part on beautiful mountains with rich volcanic soil. Rainforest type weather creates absolutely perfect growing conditions. These beans are the most aromatic and well balanced available.

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Fact: Espresso has 1/3 of the caffeine of a regular cup of coffee.

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Fact: 43% of the 249 independent language groupings in the world are in South America.

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