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Guatemala has been growing coffee since 1850. Before World War I, the Germans controlled as much as 80% of the country's production, most of which was exported to Germany. In the 1990s, the official Coffee Farmers' Association ANACAFE divided the country into eight regions according to region and flavor, and registered trademarks to promote the origin. These include Antigua, Acatenango, Huehuetenango and Atitl á n, where many award-winning farms are located. Common beans in Guatemala today include Typica, Bourbon, Caturra, Catua í, Pacas, Maragogype, Pacamara (a hybrid of the first two), Pache Comum (a local variety of Typica), and Gesha.

The Pearl Pella Manor is located in the ancient mountains of El Quich é province in west-central Guatemala and is owned by Jos é Luis and Amparo Arenas, whom locals call "quiet guardians". Because it is located in the deep mountains, it is quite inconvenient to travel to and from each other. In terms of traditional means of transportation, it takes up to three days to get to the site of the manor by taking horses and donkeys and trudging through the endless mountain roads and woods. this also directly affects the external transportation of coffee beans after harvest, so another mode of transportation is to carry coffee beans by light plane, but the transportation cost and risk are also greatly increased. The manor even fell into 36 years of financial losses. Through their strong religious beliefs, hard working attitude, enthusiasm for coffee and taking care of their employees' lives, Luis é and Amparo Arenas led the owners of the estate to turn the land into a "fertile ground of hope" full of dreams and the future, and won the fourth place in the 2006 COE Cup competition.