Puerto Rico Coffee Heritage
Heritage and protected-origin designations for Puerto Rican coffee, including historic haciendas and the Café de Puerto Rico designation.
Hacienda Buena Vista: The Living Coffee Museum of Ponce
Photo: Jcastro521 / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Hacienda Buena Vista is Puerto Rico's most ...
Café de Puerto Rico: Denominación de Origen and Protected Heritage
Café de Puerto Rico is not just a label — it is a protected designation that guarantees where the...
Hacienda Caracolillo: The Jewel of Maricao Coffee
Coffee bushes growing under a mature shade-tree canopy on a mountain farm. Photo: USDAgov / Wikim...
Coffee of Kings and Popes: Puerto Rico's Vatican Connection
Photo: M. H. (Martin H.) Zahner / Library of Congress, no known restrictions, cropped. Puerto Ric...
Yauco Selecto: The Premium Puerto Rico Coffee Brand
Yauco Selecto is a coffee brand, not a historical designation. It is a commercial name applied to...
Puerto Rico Coffee Exports: The 1890s Peak to Modern Decline
Puerto Rico's coffee industry reached its export peak in the final decade of Spanish rule and nev...
Corsican Immigration and Yauco's Coffee
A Bit of Yauco. From Karl Stephen Herrmann (Library of Congress). Image: Wikimedia Commons, publi...
Hacienda Lealtad: A Nineteenth-Century Coffee Hacienda in Lares
Hacienda Lealtad, former coffee plantation in Lares, Puerto Rico, on 20 May 2019. Photo: The Eloq...
Coffee and the Grito de Lares: Puerto Rico's 1868 Independence Revolt
The Grito de Lares — the "Cry of Lares" — was Puerto Rico's first armed uprising against Spanish ...
The Old Yauco Coffee Estates: Corsican Merchants, Coffee Mills and the 1899 Collapse
Photo: Historic American Engineering Record / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Yauco is remember...
Café Yaucono: History of a Puerto Rican Coffee Brand
La Bombonera in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, founded in 1902, photographed in 2007. Photo: picken /...