AMELONADO
When chocolate makers select cacao beans, they look for specific taste qualities.
In São Tomé and Príncipe, a rare cacao is produced: the Amelonado, originating from the Lower Amazon, with a particularly sweet and fruity taste.
This cacao was introduced in Príncipe in 1822 and in São Tomé in 1830. Protected by its insular status, the Amelonado was able to escape epidemics here. The Village Project is proud of its qualities and unique genetic characteristics of its terroir.
OBÓ - SÃO TOMÉ
Amelonado is grown on the west coast of the island of São Tomé by Satocao in the Obó, which is considered the primary forest of the archipelago located in the Gulf of Guinea, about 300 km from the western coast of Africa.
His greatest pride is to have federated the small and medium-sized planters into autonomous village groups around this beautiful project.
THE SANTOMEAN
Santomeans are formed by:
Mesticos (Mestizos),
Angolares (descendants of slaves from Angola),
Forros (descendants of freed slaves),
Serviçais (former contract workers from Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde),
Tongas (children of the Serviçais),
Europeans (descendants of the Portuguese), to which must be added Fangs, a black Bantu ethnic group from the continent.
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