Honduras

While Honduras is home to its own variety of wild Nicotiana, Copaneco, it is also regarded as an ideal place to grow Cuban and Connecticut seed varietals for premium cigars. In the southeastern part of Honduras, just north of the Nicaraguan border, lies the most significant premium cigar tobacco producing region in the country; the town of Danli and the Jamastran Valley, both in the province of El Paraiso. These areas are the epicenter of cigar production as well as a primary growing region for the country’s best tobacco. Since the 1960s cigar makers have been likening the Jamastran Valley to Pinar Del Rio, and judging from the full-bodied tobacco they grow, there are many similarities. Today, Connecticut shade-grown and corojo shade-grown tobaccos are cultivated extensively throughout the region. In addition, Honduras also produces very large amounts of Cuban seed sun-grown filler tobaccos which are found in hundreds of brands today. Honduran premium cigar tobacco production is of high quality, dynamic, and consistently improving.