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Photo: laura0509 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Coffee did not arrive in Puerto Rico until 1736, but the mountains where coffee is grown had been home to indigenous Taíno people for thousands of years before that. The Taíno presence shaped the geography, t...

Summary In Puerto Rico, coffee is part of the rhythm of the day and of family life. This article sets out what published sources document about that culture: café con leche, the stovetop coffee pot known as the greca, sobremesa, the afternoon merienda, coffee ...

Before you travel, contact the farm directly. Opening days and tour times change, and several of these farms are small family operations. Everything below comes from the published sources listed at the end, each with its date, but this encyclopedia cannot conf...

Photo: GOES imagery: CSU/CIRA & NOAA / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. On September 18, 2022, Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico and delivered a devastating second blow to an island still recovering from Hurricane Maria five years earlier. For coffee farmers...

This article reports published research and official guidance. It is not agricultural advice. Decisions about varieties, fungicides or certification should be made with the University of Puerto Rico Agricultural Extension Service, the Puerto Rico Department of...

Coffee bushes growing under a mature shade-tree canopy on a mountain farm. Photo: USDAgov / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Hacienda Caracolillo is a coffee estate in Maricao, in the western mountains of Puerto Rico. Where the Estate Is Historic black-and-wh...

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...