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Empório Chapada Diamantina

Lençóis

Organic honey, arabica coffee and umbu jam from the Chapada Diamantina highlands

Why it belongs in ORBIS

Lençóis shop and online mercado gathering the organic honey, specialty coffee, natural cosmetics, and handmade ceramics of the Chapada Diamantina highlands alongside its own printed-shirt line. Founded by a transplant from the state capital, it dispatches the region's artisanal and organic goods nationwide.

Lucas -- known to customers as 'Lucas da Chapada' -- left Bahia's state capital after a vacation to the Chapada Diamantina highlands convinced him to relocate to Lençóis and build a shop around what the region actually produces. The mercado's shelves run on that premise: certified organic honey from native highland flowers, ground and whole-bean arabica grown locally, and jars of umbu jam made from the tart native fruit, alongside natural cosmetics, handmade ceramics and a line of printed shirts carrying the shop's own name. Everything ships nationwide from the Centro address on Rua da Baderna, with orders taken by phone and WhatsApp from 8:30 in the morning to 10:30 at night -- a schedule closer to a market stall's than a typical retailer's. It reads less like a souvenir shop trading on the Chapada's reputation than an attempt to move the highlands' actual pantry -- honey, coffee, fruit, craft -- onto a shelf and out to the rest of Brazil.