San Lucas Toliman

    San Lucas Tolimán is a small town in the Mayan highlands of Guatemala. The town is about five thousand feet above sea level, on the south eastern shores of Lake Atitlan. Two volcanos watch over us. The economy of the town depends on coffee, and the south facing slopes of the volcanos provide some of the best coffee growing country in Guatemala.
     The majority of overseas visitors to San Lucas work with and stay in the Catholic Mission (see  contact information ). Fr Greg Schaffer, from Minnesota, has been parish priest here for the last forty years.
    There is a little fishing, a busy market, and other crops apart from coffee - avocado pears, maize, tomatoes and other vegetables - are grown. The climate is agreeable, most of the year being 50º or 60º just before dawn, and rising to the high 70's or 80's during the day.

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