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Provincia de Manabí

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It limit to the north with Esmeraldas, to the South with Santa Elena and Guayas,to the east with Santo Domingo, Los Ríos and Guayas, and to the West with ocean Pacific. Its Capital is Portoviejo

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In Manabí there are still colorful and rare species of birds, some mammals, snakes and iguanas, Any animals as monkeys, tigrillos and armadillos existed in this zone, The Carrizal has allowed the development of varied fauna.
Here there are trees such as mangroves, ceibos, and plants of citrus, cocoa, avocado and other comentible plants.

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the climate is subtropical dry to humid tropical and extremely humid tropical and is determined by marine currents.

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Portoviejo (Capital)

Manta

Calceta

Chone

Bahía de Caráquez

Montecristi

Jipijapa

El Carmen

Pedernales

San Vicente

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Breakfast at café cultural toquilla.

Arriving we were given a prior induction of the área, then came Breakfast, which consisted of a hot chocolate and main course had bolon Green, chesse, matured and salt prieta.

Finca Don Vicente Mieles

Mr. Vicente kindly took care of us guided usa round the estate, showing the various varieties of cocoa he has. Cocoa domestic, foreign, cocoa CCN-51 y others

Cabains don Toto

A very nice place, the people in charge of the maintenance of the place cleaned and maintained a comforting decoration, the Food was in the shape of a steak in the manaba style.

Valley Fortress Corporation.

The Corporation has a wide range of land and machinery dedicated to cocoa processing, produces and markets “fine aroma” cocoa widely coined by the big chocolate corporations.

Tecao Gourmet

It´s a manabite Enterprise, a family Project led by mr Carlos Vera and his wife, who rely on the opportunity to expand and become a renowned Company

Stay don Vicho.

It was part of the Breakfast for all of us, inside the estableshment, the waiters kindly approached and offered us continental breakfasts and manabite breakfasts, most of the companions supported Breakfast.

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The Arboledos

In the picture, you can see the residence “The Arboleros”, where the people who live there cultivate bamboo and make fertilizers for their crops with organic materials and nitrogen.
Finca Doña Flor

In the picture, you can observe the moment of the lunch that took place in the local “Doña Flor” in the área of Ricaurte with his specialty the meat.
Finca Sanchez

In the picture, we are to go up to the cocoa area of ​​Sanchez  in some trucks suitable to go up to the moor that shows the coastal mountain
Hostel The Candles

In the picture, is the hostel "The Candles" where we stayed the day saturday in the city of Manta
The Pacific Mall

In the picture, you can see “The Pacific Mall” of the city of Manta where we went to dinner on Saturday night.
Beach  El Murcielago

In the picture, we are on the beach "El Murciélago" its name is due to the fact that the area resembles the silhouette of this mammal with wings spread out.
Yacht Club

In the picture, we are in the area of the yacht club,  where an hour tour was made on a yacht and we could appreciate the surroundings of the beach.

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Harvest

The gentleman uses a knife to cut the cob and extracts the cocoa seed.

Fermentation

They use a boxes of Wood covers with leaves of banana. The cacao should reach to 45 °C or 50 °C.

Drying

There are two types of drying. The first is drying to the sun and the second is a drying artificial. The picture is the second types.

Toasted

Machine used for toast the cacao. The toasted helps to reduce the humidity, also eliminates bacteria or microorganisms. Finally, it helps to have a better aroma to the cocoa.

Descaling

separation of the husk of the seed

Milled

In the picture it is noted the milled of the cacao

Refined

This process lasts 48 hours to 80 °C.

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three most interesting places visited during the trip

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three most interesting places visited during the trip

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Step 1
THE PARAMO
On the trip we were given a tour to the paramo in a small car.

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THE “ARBOLEROS”
The arboleros is a wooden house built a year ago. The house is used for tourists and university interns.

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COFFEE CULTURAL TOQUILLA
Is an estate where we haved breakfast the first day of the trip.

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The first two days of the trip were great but we could not enjoy the third day because our classmate woke up sick, but she feels better. The experience and the education that this trip leaves me I can applied not only for my projects but for future plans that I want to  my thesis or a job that I can undertake because I know the manabi merchants will guide me to know a good raw material.