Zotea is a Culinary Center framed in an alternative model of communitarian development through cultural and ecological tourism. This place of exchange of gastronomic knowledge seeks to vindicate the cultural traditions of the populations of the Chocoan coast in the Colombian Pacific, betting on the synergy between the traditional knowledge and the cultural and biological diversity of the territory, in order to consolidate value chains that range from production to the commercialization of value-added foods such as coconut oil and organic rice.
¿What we do?
ZOTEA is a restaurant, a green house, a production center, an exchange of knowledge, and a communitarian dream, that aims to generate opportunities to improve the income and quality of life of the community of Coquí and nearby villages from the South of Nuquí.
Why Zotea?
In a community of fishermen and farmers ZOTEA represents the best of both worlds. A boat: zotea, small boat or canoe that lost its ability to navigate but acquires a new meaning as a traditional food growing system.
Coquí · Ubicado en el municipio de Chocó
How the Project was Born?
ZOTEA was conceived thanks to the union between two organizations, Chocó Emprende and FUNLEO, and the community of Coquí which have been working together focusing their efforts in materialize the collective vision to convert Coquí in the most important referent Colombian Pacific cuisine. In that way, Chocó Emprende contributes their vision of entrepreneurship and management,
FUNLEO, its trajectory of communitarian development with rural populations in the claim of ingredients and culinary traditions, and the community of Coquí with their unique cultural and biological heritage. In partnership, the three parts work hand in hand in the co- creation of a model where every partner contributes with their knowledge and their strengths.
100% Organic
Our Products
Cold-pressed coconut oil
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Our Team
Marina Mackinlay
Director of Chocó Emprende Foundation
Marina works together with the community of Coquí and Funleo, providing a management vision with a strong focus on the coordination of the parties as well as promoting commercial marketing strategies, network management and alliances.
Woods Staton
Executive Board Director
He provides the economics resources, the push to the project from the love to the region and his knowledge in Business that allows to constantly improve the plans and to advance solutions.
Dan Gertsacov
Advisor in Marketing and Communication
From his extensive experience in different companies as a leader in marketing and communication, he provides insights to the strategies that allow a greater exposure of the project by making alliances that allow it.
Laura Hernández
Project Director
She is in charge of working together with Chocó Emprende and the community of Coquí to generate strategies and alliances that allow the adequate management of the human, environmental, cultural and economic resources that are linked to the project.
Catalina Ramírez
Local Coordinator
From her work experience as an environmental engineer and environmental technologist in the research sector, she is in charge of the purchasing area, suppliers, monthly reports, group coordination and other tasks related to the operation.
Leonor Espinosa
Director of Creative Culinary Labs
From her career as a chef, Leonor seeks through the implementation of creative culinary laboratories, points of convergence between art and vindication of traditional knowledge around the food system of Coquí, in order to generate social cohesion as well as the continuous use of traditional ingredients around innovative ideas.
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Reservations
To visit ZOTEA it is necessary to book in advance. We will contact you for confirmation.
If you want to contact us or receive more information, you may contact us at the following phone numbers or by completing the form below
Mob: (57) 301.3672836
E-mail: contacto@zotea.org
