Kallari
Kallari is a community-based company, born from the association of local and Quechua producers located around the Napo River in the Amazon. It is around this region that the greatest genetic diversity of cocoa is found. It is also where the consumption and cultivation of cocoa appeared, according to historical research. Some people have been cultivating it for more than 5000 years, following the ancestral agricultural system of the chakra. The chakra implies an agricultural management of natural resources according to the cosmology of the Quechuas. Women play a leading role as guardians of ancestral knowledge, guarantors of food security and administrators of the production space. Kallari is therefore part of the Chakra, Womn and Chocolate campaign, supported by the province of Napo and the European Union, among others, which aims to promote these elements of culture in an integral way, both locally and internationally.
They sell several types of chocolates, some made from nacional arriba cocoa, others from Sacha. The bars are not available in stores in Quito, but they can be ordered. You can also find bars by chance during visits in the jungle: my first contact was on a stall of handicrafts of a community living near the lunch stop of a rafting tour in Baños…!
8 bars reviewed
Exceptional
Excellent
- Kallari - Sacha - 61% Cacao - Samachik
- Kallari - Farmer Owned Organic Chocolate - 75% cacao nacional
Good
- Kallari - Sacha - 71% Hampik Ushay with Ginger
- Kallari - 63% Dark Chocolate with Inca Peanut
- Kallari - Sacha - 72% Cacao - Nina Uchu - Aji