Quantitative Data: The Utz Che’ Community Forestry Association of Guatemala (meaning ‘good tree’ in the K’iché language) is a civil association formed by community organizations dedicated to the sustainable management of their natural resources, primarily forests, forest plantations, and water sources.

Utz Che’ is constituted as a National Network that brings together diverse community, indigenous, and peasant groups, with cultural, ethnic, and organizational diversity, seeking social inclusion, fair and sustainable development, as well as respect for the human and territorial rights of the different peoples that form Guatemala. The organizations associated with Utz Che’ have different forms of organization such as Parcialidades (Ancestral Land Holdings), Cooperatives, Indigenous Communities, Peasant Associative Enterprises (ECA), and Peasant Associations of the Mam, Poqomam, Pocomchi’, Popti’, Achi’, Kiche’, Kaqchiquel, Q’eqchi’, Chorti’ , Q’anjob’al, Xinka peoples, and Mestizos.

More than 28 grassroots community organizations, protecting over 74,280 hectares of forests.

Services Offered: The services offered by our community tourism initiatives are: Lodging, food service, Event Hall, Hiking, Canopy/Zipline, Birdwatching, Mountain Biking.