La Voz Coffee Cooperative Trail, San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala

A trail through the La Voz Coffee Cooperative in San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala, passes between dense vegetation and coffee-growing plots on the slopes above Lake Atitlán. The cooperative is part of the local coffee economy in this Tz’utujil Maya town, where small-scale producers cultivate coffee under shade trees in mixed agricultural landscapes. Such shaded plantation paths are used for access to growing areas and for tours that connect coffee production with community-based tourism in the municipality.

Photo taken in March 2020.