A family business that began in 1926, with the great grandfather of the family, who after years of working hard to sell his coffee, joined the federation of coffee growers to help other coffee growers in the region improve their processes. With the help of his grandchildren, who help with all the processing of his coffee, they educate future generations in La Mesa de Elias about the education of specialty coffee.

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​In the year 1926 in the municipality of Elias in Colombia, Mr. Carlos Enrique Rivera decided to begin the challenge of becoming a coffee grower; year after year he began to learn more about the processes, becoming the best in the south of Huila. His greatest dream was to be able to give his knowledge to the coffee growers of the area, making them all become infected with the desire to learn more and create coffees of excellent quality; but not everything went as far as that, he managed to ensure that all future generations would have this vocation for learning and teaching. For this reason Ancestro was born, a project based on knowledge and quality.