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The José de Diego administration building at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, its portico inscribed College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Photo: Joapsk8 (English Wikipedia) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. The University of Puerto Rico at Mayag...

In 2022 Puerto Rico had 7,602 principal farm operators. Of those, 944 were women — about one in eight. That figure, from the Census of Agriculture, covers all agriculture rather than coffee alone, and it is the clearest number available on how the island's far...

Puerto Rico is one of the countries with the highest cost of producing coffee in the world, according to the University of Puerto Rico's Agricultural Experiment Station. This article covers the island's coffee cooperatives, past and present; who sets the price...

Calle Fortaleza, Old San Juan. Photo: Ligocsicnarf89 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Summary Coffee in San Juan runs on two tracks. The older one is café con leche with a mallorca, a quesito or pan sobao at a panadería or cafetería, a habit shared across Puert...

Carretera PR-10, Utuado, Puerto Rico, on 5 April 2015. Photo: Yarfpr / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Summary Utuado and Ciales are neighbouring municipalities in Puerto Rico's Cordillera Central, both with long coffee histories. In the nineteenth century Ut...

Summary For generations, much of the coffee made in Puerto Rican homes was café colao: coffee strained through a cloth filter called a colador. Family accounts describe the colador gradually giving way to the stovetop moka pot, known in Puerto Rico as a greca,...

Photo: M. H. (Martin H.) Zahner / Library of Congress, no known restrictions, cropped. Puerto Rican coffee was sold to the Vatican. That much is documented, and it is genuinely unusual — the Holy See was the only government that purchased Puerto Rican coffee d...

Editorial and AI Policy The Coffee Encyclopedia (encyclopedia.puertoricocoffeeshop.com) is a free community resource documenting coffee culture, science, producers, and history — with special focus on Puerto Rican coffee heritage. We believe in full transparen...

Photo: Frederick Albion Ober / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Las Marías sits in the mountains of western Puerto Rico, between Mayagüez and the coffee municipalities of the interior. It grows coffee on its higher slopes and sweet oranges on its lower ones, ...

San Sebastián is a municipality in the hills of north-western Puerto Rico. It is one of the island's coffee municipalities, and it is known for hammocks. The Town Sector Olavarría in Perchas 2, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, 22 May 2019. Photo: The Eloquent Peasa...

Orocovis is a mountain municipality in the middle of Puerto Rico, known as "the heart of Puerto Rico". It is listed among the island's coffee municipalities, but by the 2022 Census of Agriculture it is a small coffee area: 29 of its farms sold coffee that year...

Villalba is a municipality on the southern slope of Puerto Rico's Cordillera Central, where the mountains fall toward the drier south coast. It is known as la Ciudad de los Lagos for its two reservoirs, Lago Toa Vaca and Lago Guayabal, and as la Ciudad del Gan...

Café del Futuro is a four-year, $15 million climate-smart agriculture project led by NCBA CLUSA and implemented in Puerto Rico with PROCAFÉ. It is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, but it is not run by the USDA, and an earlier version of t...

Yauco Selecto is a coffee brand, not a historical designation. It is a commercial name applied to selected coffee associated with the Yauco district of southwestern Puerto Rico, and it has circulated in international specialty markets since approximately 1990....

Summary Puerto Rico has its own vocabulary for coffee, from puya (black, without sugar) to bibí (very milky). This article sets out those terms as Discover Puerto Rico, the island's official tourism organisation, defines them, and describes three preparations:...

Hurricane María struck Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017 as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of about 155 miles per hour. It crossed the island southeast to northwest, directly through the Cordillera Central where the coffee is grown. The damage to coffe...

Coffee is graded in two main ways: physically, by counting defects in a sample of green coffee, and by taste, through cupping. Several coffee-producing countries also grade coffee by the altitude at which it was grown. Puerto Rico has its own legal grades and ...

Puerto Rico's coffee industry reached its export peak in the final decade of Spanish rule and never recovered it. In 1896 the island shipped 579,613 quintales abroad, the highest figure in the historical record. Within four years the trade had been broken by a...