Maya Mountain Cacao Ltd

Founded in 2010, this centralized fermentation put Belize on the craft chocolate map as a pioneer in the social enterprise model. The country’s first exporter of high-quality and centrally fermented cacao . Today, Maya Mountain Cacao work with 450 smallholder farming families in the Toledo and South Stann Creek districts. Most of these producers are Q’eqchi’ and Mopan Maya, for whom cacao production goes back generations. Maya Mountain Cacao’s 100% Belizean Maya team processes all cacao at a centralized facility where three unique stages of sun drying create optimal flavor. Maya Mountain Cacao is focused on building long-term, transparent partnerships with farmers and producing uniquely delicious cacao that supports the communities of southern Belize.