Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
Costa Rica’s ideal climate and fertile soil make it the perfect environment for producing premium tobacco. Primarily used as a filler or binder, Costa Rican tobacco is gaining popularity as a wrapper too. Their exquisite maduro wrapper leaves are recognized for being full-bodied. Located just south of Nicaragua in Central America, Costa Rica has become a primary source of tobacco for boutique cigar makers.

Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
Claro wrapper is light, yellowish brown in color.

The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
Ecuador is the perfect place to grow wrappers, because it is located on the Equator! And it has rich soils too. The weather conditions, with a nearly permanent cloudy sky, provide a natural shade, protecting the wrapper plants from sunshine and allowing the tobacco to grow thin and light. This climate allows tobacco growers to grow Connecticut-seed wrapper in the shade without shade cloths, resulting in more economical wrapper.

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
Due to almost permanent cloudy skies, which provide a natural shade, Ecuador is the ideal place to grow Connecticut shade tobacco. The cloud cover allows the tobacco to grown without shade cloths, which reduces its production costs. Ecuadorian Connecticut shade grown is typically used for wrappers and binders.

Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.

Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.

The Tabacos de Costa Rica factory was established by Don Olman in 1997. It is located in Santiago de Puriscal in Costa Rica.