Foundation Metapa Claro Corona Gorda 5"1/2 * 48

The Foundation Metapa Claro brand was crafted as an homage to the accomplished poet Ruben Dario as well as the Metapa, which means “place of magueys” (a type of agave plant). The plant is often featured in Central American art and mythology. Dario was born in the city of Metapa, which was renamed in his honor to Ciudad Dario. The Metapa Claro cigar features a light-tan Ecuadorian Sumatra-seed wrapper that drapes a USA Connecticut Broadleaf binder, and filler leaves from Esteli and Jalapa, which are two of Nicaragua’s top tobacco-producing regions. This carefully selected three-nation blend offers a medium-strength smoking experience that’s rich in flavor. The cigars are handmade at AJ Fernandez’s Tabacalera Fernandez factory in Nicaragua.

The Robusto is a short Churchill size, traditionally 5 to 5.5 inches by a 50 ring gauge.

Cigar sections can be box-pressed, oval, or round. A mixed section is when the cigar maker creates the same cigar blend and the same size but offers a choice between a box-pressed, oval, and/or round section.

This cigar is 5"1/2 inches long, or 139.7 mm.

Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
Despite many decades of war and revolution in this Central American country, the cigar industry has thrived due to the hard work and tenacity of Cuban exiles to the land such as Plasencia, Padron, Oliva, Ortez, and others. Tobacco has been a force of social stability, and the country is now one of the principal exporters of premium cigars in the world.

The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 48, so his diameter is 48/64 inches or 19.05 mm.

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.

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

Cuban expatriate AJ Fernandez produces handmade cigars in Esteli, Nicaragua at the Tabacalera Fernandez factory. Fernandez learned everything he knows about tobacco and cigarmaking from his late grandfather, cigar legend Alejandro Robaina.

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. Ecuador supplies Connecticut and Sumatra type wrappers to many cigar factory in the world.

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
USA Connecticut Broadleaf tobacco is grown in the Connecticut River Valley area. The soil in this region is of glacial origins. The tobacco is dark, oily, flavorful, and aromatic. It is used primarily as a maduro wrapper, but it also serves as an excellent binder.

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