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Where the liqueur's cacao comes from, and the farm on the Santa Fe route where an afternoon was spent among pods.

Pen-and-ink drawing: a man in a cap beside a hand opening a cacao pod with its beans showing; behind, the cacao tree with its pods

The cacao in the liqueur comes from Bocas del Toro, from the collaboration called Proyecto Cacao. It is the cacao in Tostao, which declares that origin on its own page.

Finca El Salto was met on a visit, on the Santa Fe route, in Veraguas. It is an ecological and agrotourism farm. Two diary entries came out of that afternoon: an afternoon of cacao —a pod split open with a machete on the floor of the cacao grove— and the waterfall the farm is named for, twenty minutes into the hills.

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A bright orange cacao pod hanging directly from a tree trunk, among branches and green leaves in shadeStory · 21 February 2024

An afternoon of cacao at Finca El Salto

The afternoon before the sunrise at the apiary. A pod opened with a machete on the forest floor, and the same fruit in two tenses.

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Tall forest trunks seen from below, canopies closing against a white skyStory · 21 February 2024

The waterfall the farm is named after

The same afternoon as the cacao, twenty minutes into the hills: the forest, the pool, the valley and the fall.

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