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Mapping The Coffee Plantations of Guatemala
Finely executed hand drawn map of Guatemala by Carlos (Carl) Schulitz.
The map includes inset maps of the town of Antigua and the Alta Verapaz region.
The map focuses on the topographical details of Guatemala, meticulously adding contour lines, identifying topographical features, major towns, rivers, mountains and the roads and earliest railroad lines in the country.
Carlos Schulitz
Carlos Schulitz travelled to Guatemala in the 1880s with Jorge Rosen in search of opportunities in the coffee plantation business. As representatives of the Compania Hamburguesa de Plantaciones in Guatemala, they acquired a number of plantations.
Compania Hamburguesa de Plantaciones in Guatemala (CHPG)
In 1889, the CHPG purchased Finca "El Porvenir" from Francisca Aparicio, the widow of the former President Justo Rufino Barrios. Located on the slopes of the Tajumulco volcano in San Marcos, the cost was 500,000 pesos. The farm had coffee, Cattle, and a railroad line crossing the property and the first full harvest yielded 8,000 sacks of coffee from the estimated 1.2 Million coffee trees.
