About us
TERRA TROPICS is a brand inspired by our tropics, which is home to eighty percent of our biodiversity. Its wide range of colors fills us with energy and joy, our Eco-sustainable essence makes us remember life, the basics and all the authenticity of our origins.
TERRA is Colombia, it is Tropic, and it is Eco-Sustainable with a clear social objective, impacting where our communities need it.
Colombia:
- Colombia is located on the equator line, we have a tropical climate, known as equatorial climate, which gives us an advantage to have a diversity of flora / fruits throughout the year.
- Our products are made 100% by hand with the dried natural fiber of the palm leaf or plant originating from different regions of the country.
- We work with regions offering fair trade and ensuring an ethical manufacturing process.
- Our products are made using ancient and ancient techniques that represent the culture of indigenous people or Colombian artisans.
Eco-Sustainable:
- 100% biodegradable due to its 100% natural fibers, which ensures its decomposition, providing balance to nature.
- The main raw material is the dry palm leaf. Complete maturation of the leaf is expected before cutting and completing the final drying process.
- Being a handmade product, our units are limited, avoiding overproduction.
- We ensure the principles of Slow Fashion or Ecological Fashion. The useful life for normal use or fashion is five years or more, for heavy work (e.g. Agriculture) 2 years.
Corporate responsability
- We help rescue and preserve the culture of communities (their ancestral skills and the life stories behind each product)
- Behind this pre-Hispanic process there is a person, his family and his life story, which makes each hat have its own meaning.
- Behind the preparation and finishing, there is the work of senior citizens and single mothers who make the details a unique style for each TERRA Hat.
- We provide job sustainability and economic stability to our collaborators.
- In addition to paying a fair price or promoting fair trade, we invest part of our company's profits in social needs (child education and nutrition).
- We provide access to international markets by sharing your legacy with the world.