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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...

A Bit of Yauco. From Karl Stephen Herrmann (Library of Congress). Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. The town of Yauco is known as the Pueblo del Café and also as the Pueblo de los Corsos. Corsican immigrants settled there in large numbers in the ninetee...

Hacienda Lealtad, former coffee plantation in Lares, Puerto Rico, on 20 May 2019. Photo: The Eloquent Peasant / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Summary Hacienda Lealtad is a historic coffee hacienda in Lares, in the mountains of western Puerto Rico. It was fo...

Café Don Ruiz is a coffee shop with its own small roastery and a coffee museum in the Cuartel de Ballajá, the former Spanish barracks facing Castillo San Felipe del Morro in Old San Juan. It sells coffee grown by the Ruiz family, whose farms are in the mountai...

The Grito de Lares — the "Cry of Lares" — was Puerto Rico's first armed uprising against Spanish colonial rule, staged on September 23, 1868 by a Revolutionary Committee organized by Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, lawyer Segundo Ruiz Belvis, and approximately a ...

Cordillera Central foliage in Gato, Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Photo: Ligocsicnarf89 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Jamaica Blue Mountain is the coffee that Puerto Rican coffee is most often compared with. This article compares how each is defined, regulated and ...

Summary The colador de café is a cloth coffee filter: a bag of flannel or cotton, shaped like a sock and sewn onto a wire ring with a handle. In Puerto Rico, coffee strained through it is called café colao. Puerto Rican family accounts describe the colador as ...

Mountain in Jayuya, Puerto Rico. Photo: South Atlantic Division (SAD) USACE / Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Hacienda San Pedro is a family coffee farm in barrio Coabey, Jayuya, in the mountains of central Puerto Rico. The Atienza family has run it since 19...

Photo: Yarfpr / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Alto Grande is a Puerto Rican coffee brand from Lares, marketed under the phrase "the coffee of popes and kings" and sold internationally as a premium single-origin Arabica. Its promotional material describes an...

Casa Pueblo is a community organisation in Adjuntas, in Puerto Rico's central mountains. It began in 1980 as a fight against open-pit mining, it runs on sunlight, and it grows and sells coffee under the name Madre Isla. The coffee pays for the rest. This artic...

Photo: Thichcoffee / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hacienda Tres Ángeles is a family-run coffee farm in Adjuntas that became Puerto Rico's first certified agritourism farm. Tucked into the cordillera central beneath El Gigante Dormido — the Sleeping Giant m...