The seasonal rains come earlier than in the other regions, arriving by mid-April and tapering off mid-November. As they build to a crescendo in June and September, they become torrential deluges, raising annual rainfall to an impressive 200 inches in some areas –by far the most of any of the coffee-growing regions, even rainy and cloudy Cobán. As in all of Guatemala’s remote regions, most of the coffee is cultivated on farms with their own processing mill. Because of the unpredictability of the rain during the harvest season, much of the coffee is pre-dried in the sun and finished in a Guardiola dryer.