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SONQO means HEART in Quechua. An open heart receives wisdom. United through wisdom, we can move mountains and realize visions – just as the Incas in Peru once created magical wonders of the world – their magic potion was Pachamama Cacao!

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Celebrate life

Who wouldn't want a chocolate life? – But sometimes life throws us a curveball.
In retrospect, such moments can also be gifts; they ignite mental strength and activate unexpected creativity. Sometimes, however, they break our hearts – and it is precisely through this that the strength of the heart grows and expands.

PACHAMAMA CACAO IS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

Pachamama Cacao is a true heart opener – gentle, warm, peaceful, and yet powerful; as a daily cacao, it strengthens manifestation skills for work and sports. It activates leisure and enjoyment for the arts, yoga, and meditation, and also enables a sensual sex life. Of course, it's a must-have at your celebrations and parties! Experience the Cacao Chuncho now at one of the SONQO events .

Celebrate simplicity

It doesn't get more natural than this! SONQO's Pachamama Cacao is hand-picked at the foot of the mystical Machu Picchu and deep in the pristine rainforest of Peru, fermented outdoors, and dried by the natural light of the sun, moon, and stars. It is then roasted in a small workshop and lovingly crafted into bars.

YES TO AN INTACT AMAZON

A truly holistic production process doesn't need labels or certifications, which mostly only represent partial solutions and involve a lot of bureaucracy. That's why SONQO packaging is completely free of them.

The original cacao production method has many advantages:

Unlike many other cacao products, Pachamama Cacao can easily be prepared with water. If you'd like a change, try replacing the water with fruit juice – yum!

Order your natural superfood conveniently to your home.

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Celebrate superfood

SONQO preserves the knowledge of wild-growing medicinal plants from Peru and other parts of the world.

WILD-GROWN PLANTS CONNECT BODY, MIND AND SOUL HOLISTICLY.

Natural superfood from SYNTROPIC JUNGLE CARE should not be packaged in aluminum, airtight jars or plastic, but protected in paper, cardboard or with a cork lid; if the food can breathe, it matures like wine and the effect will even improve over time.

Important: Your SONQO gelatin dessert will be delivered in a practical cardboard box, so that you can finely chop the cacao bars with a kitchen knife and optimally store the ready-to-use portions at room temperature (18-20 degrees).

Celebrate Chuncho

Come with us on a journey back in time to the beginnings of chocolate: CACAO CHUNCHO is an ancient, resistant variety that was enjoyed daily in Peru even before the Incas.

CHUNCHO MEANS WILD IN QUECHUA.

The world's most original cacao variety doesn't like being cultivated on plantations. It thrives best in the biodiversity of an intact rainforest. The juice, flesh, and beans of a single fruit can thus unleash a wealth of around 300 nutrients and trigger an explosion of up to 600 flavors on the palate.

WILDNESS MANIFESTS WHAT CAN UNFOLD FREELY ACCORDING TO INNER NATURE – WILDNESS CAN BE GENTLE AS A BLOSSOM.

SONQO encourages people to manifest their own inner nature freely, purely, and at the same time with full respect for culture, gender, and the life situation of themselves and others; in a MUNAY CEREMONY or during a MUNAY CELEBRATION, we express inner freedom in harmony with the outer world and thus celebrate a mindful life – you are warmly welcome!

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Syntropic jungle care

The ancient, resistant variety CACAO CHUNCHO grows exclusively in an environment left untouched by humans:

Micro- and macro-organisms exist in high biodiversity and in complex, interconnected cycles.

Naturally healthy humus can renew itself by at least one centimeter annually.

Farming families interact with the uncontrollable vitality in humility and care.

All these multifaceted parameters guarantee the well-being of the forest and also the high quality of PACHAMAMA CACAO.

An intact jungle no longer provides man with resources for material profit, but rather abundance and primal trust in his own inner nature: an atmosphere full of love and vitality, free from control and strategy.

SONQO learns from the Swiss farmer Ernst Götsch and his method of "Syntropic Farming." He lives in the Brazilian Amazon and has translated the basic principles of permaculture to the South American rainforest. His way of life in the rainforest generates a high degree of complexity in its horizontal and vertical cycles. Syntropic Farming can quickly restore a controlled area (plantation) to the high biodiversity of an intact rainforest.

Would you like to experience SONQO's projects firsthand in Peru and learn on site?

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Celebrate Pachamama

SONQO preserves the knowledge of wild-growing medicinal plants from Peru and other parts of the world.

WILD-GROWN PLANTS CONNECT BODY, MIND AND SOUL HOLISTICLY.

Natural superfood from SYNTROPIC JUNGLE CARE should not be packaged in aluminum, airtight jars or plastic, but protected in paper, cardboard or with a cork lid; if the food can breathe, it matures like wine and the effect will even improve over time.

Important: Your SONQO gelatin dessert will be delivered in a practical cardboard box, so that you can finely chop the cacao bars with a kitchen knife and optimally store the ready-to-use portions at room temperature (18-20 degrees).

Celebrate circular culture

In the summer of 2012, Ángel Herrera founded the association «Sonqo Ca Peru» in Cusco to preserve Peruvian cosmology.

On February 2, 2022, he founded sonqo.shop gmbh in Switzerland and in 2024 the association SONQO.

These organizations together form the non-profit «sonqo circular culture».

IMPORT-EXPORT IS INTERCULTURAL COOPERATION AND ULTIMATELY PEACEWORK.

Regardless of gender, religion or political beliefs, the SONQO community stands for people who want to take action for the benefit of an intact nature and are at the same time open to learning, exchanging ideas and inspiring others with their commitment.

SONQO leads by example: 12% of the annual net profit from cacao sales by songo.shop gmbh flows to the SONQO association and its non-profit projects in Quillabamba. This donation closes the circle back to the farming families and, above all, to nature, where Pachamama cacao originates.

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Celebrate farmers

SONQO supports the farming collective around the Pumatiy manufactory in the Quillabamba region, in the so-called cloud forest at the foot of the mystical Machu Picchu, at 700 meters above sea level in the Peruvian Andes. To gain insight into the project's development, follow SONQO on Instagram, Facebook , and in their threads , or subscribe to our newsletter . In Quillabamba, SONQO collaborates with a collective of 120 farming families who have already successfully transitioned from hybrid chocolate varieties to the resistant Chuncho variety. They produce your premium Pachamama cacao.

Gifts are so wonderful because they come from the heart.

The SONQO COMMUNITY celebrates the farming families with annual training courses in Syntropic Jungle Care. In 2024, Angel Herrera completed a multi-month course in Brazil with Ernst Götsch, the founder of Syntropic Farming. He will regularly bring experts to Quillabamba to provide further training for the farming families.

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Celebrate reforestation

Another SONQO non-profit project is located in Pucallpa, in the Peruvian rainforest, which is connected to the largest Amazon region in the world.

Pucallpa is located in northern Peru at an altitude of 150 meters above sea level.

Here, the non-profit organization SONQO Peru is reforesting a burned-down area of approximately 30 hectares in accordance with the principles of Syntropic Jungle Care.

In a further 80 hectares of intact primeval forest, research projects for syntropic farming and training courses for farming families and interested parties from Europe will be established in the future.

Those who allow themselves to give unconditionally live in abundance.

For about 10 years, the association SONQO Peru has been working with local farming families to reforest the 30 hectares. The projects have so far been privately financed by Ángel Herrera.
In 2024, Ángel Herrera and a farmer from Pucallpa were invited to Brazil by Ernst Götsch to learn from him personally. SONQO made this training possible. Now, Sandro and Ángel are passing on what they learned to other people involved in Pucallpa.
At a later date, a seminar center with the necessary infrastructure will be built in Pucallpa, where farming families, as well as interested people from Europe, can live and practically participate in the projects.
Also planned is a plant house where original seeds will be collected and stored. The seedlings will be cultivated there for later planting in the rainforest.

Celebrate donation

Would you like to support SONQO's non-profit projects? – Thank you very much!

Here you will find the bank details for donations:

CHF > IBAN: CH130025425423521801T
EUR > IBAN: CH030025425423521860W
USD > IBAN: CH840025425423521861Q

Bank: UBS AG, Switzerland
BIC : UBSWCHZH80A

IG SONQO Association, Buonaserstrasse 30, CH-6343 Rotkreuz

You would like to make a larger donation and have questions:

CONTACT SONQO

Celebrate teams

For many years, SONQO has been conducting preliminary projects on a voluntary basis and investing privately in various research and structures. This has already led to the creation of the wonderful, globally networked SONQO COMMUNITY – a heartfelt thank you to all partners and participants in every way for their dedication, kindness, and trust!

Design: Alltag Agentur (St. Gallen, SG), Webmaster: Dani Lopar (St. Gallen, CH), Administration: Michael Storz (Landsberg am Lech), Accounting: Dominique Brandle, Warehouse & Shipping: Neuland AG (Rotkreuz, CH) and 123fulfillment (Cologne, D)

Event network: Shanti Sherpa (Oberhofen, BE), Stefanie Hüesser (Bern, CH)

Club Board: Ángel Herrera Choque (President, St. Gallen, CH/Peru), Nina Santner (Secretary, Pfäffikon, ZH), Gudrun Götsch (Jungle Food Specialist), Sebastian Noris (Circular Culture Specialist, DE, Turkey)

sonqo.shop gmbh: Ángel Herrera Choque (CEO, St. Gallen, CH/Peru), Sebastian Noris, D

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