"De'Aruhuä Cacao" is wholly owned and operated by Simeon Moreño, his parientes and neighbors from the Ajeteoto Community of the secluded Upper Paraguaza River Valley and 12 other Indigenous villages. Our cacao is marked in accordance with the Law of Indigenous Origin which includes brand name, community name, valley name, and regional international river.
Our Plain Label: De'Aruhuä Cacao, Ajeteoto, Alto Paraguaza, Orinoquia
This means to arrive at our community from the Atlantic Ocean you arrive by sea at the Orinoco then take the Paraguaza River to the first main branch the Upper Paraguaza then to Ajeteoto. To visit Ajeteoto in cacao season come in March and stay until late July, if you need a guide we can arrange that - meeting you at Puerto Carreño at the Huottuja Foundation office.
All funds from the agricultural production of cacao are disseminated to the community as a group. To ensure that this is the case the Huottuja Foundation takes photographs of funds, goods and supplies being distributed from Colombia or internationally that are delivered to the community, this is documented and recorded in logs and connected to our registers, cloud and blockchain data system.