Abya Yala in the Kuna language means saved territory, mature land, or flourishing land; it was the name of the American continent before the Spanish conquest. In 2021, the Quimbayo Gómez family acquired a 3-hectare plot of land intended for the production of coffee and other fruits, which had been in an abandoned state, resulting in a natural restoration of the local ecosystem in balance with the cultivated species.
The idea of continuing with this model of minimal intervention and almost wild production is to emulate the production processes carried out by some of the native peoples on the continent.
Previously known as “Santa Teresa de los Pinos,” Abya Yala seeks to restore and conserve both the natural and cultural heritage of the Sumapaz region, directed toward a shared sustainable development, far removed from current conventional production systems.
In Abya Yala, two coffee production models are practiced: agroecological and organic. These differ from other models by taking the “environmental cost” into account to obtain natural, high-quality harvests, because we are what we consume as food.
