Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
The Dominican Republic is the world's first producer of cigars. Most factories are located in Santiago, in the center of the island, and in close proximity to the tobacco fields grown in the fertile Cibao Valley. While tobacco and cigars have always traditionally been produced in the Dominican Republic, many Cuban cigar makers established in the Dominican Republic after the Cuban communist revolution, elevating the quality of Dominican cigars.

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. 
A tobacco hybrid grown in the Dominican Republic. The San Vicente plant is valued for its high leaf yield, and it makes an excellent binder.

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.

Agroindustrial Nicaraguense de Tabacos S.A. (aka Agrotabacos) is a family owned business that was established in 1995 by Omar Ortez, a well-known tobacco grower and manufacturer in Nicaragua. The Ortez family has been involved in the tobacco business for more than 50 years. Agrotabacos is a seed to finished cigar company. They grow tobacco and produce cigars for globally recognized brands such as Altadis USA, Flor de Gonzalez, Ventura Cigars, and Zander-Greg’s NAT CICCO. They also create their own cigars under the Omar Ortez Maduro and the Omar Ortez Originals brands.