Growing regions

Ethiopia

A growing region in southern Ethiopia widely known for washed arabica coffees, often grown at high altitude by smallholder farmers.

Colombia

A mountainous department in southern Colombia and one of the country's largest coffee-growing regions, known for washed-process arabica grown at high altitude.

Kenya

A high-altitude county in central Kenya on the slopes of Mount Kenya, known for washed arabica processed through Kenya's cooperative factory system and for cultivars bred specifically for local conditions.

Guatemala

A well-known growing region in Guatemala surrounding the city of Antigua, with volcanic soil and a valley microclimate widely cited among Guatemala's most recognised coffee-producing areas.

Costa Rica

A mountainous region south of San José, Costa Rica, widely regarded as one of the country's premier growing areas, with numerous micro-mills producing washed and honey-processed coffee.

Indonesia

A growing region at the northern tip of Sumatra, closely associated with the wet-hulled processing method traditional to the island and the heavy-bodied, low-acidity character commonly associated with it.

Vietnam

The main coffee-growing region of Vietnam, dominated by robusta production and centred on provinces including Đắk Lắk, supplying the majority of the country's coffee output.

Brazil

Brazil's largest coffee-producing state by volume, encompassing several recognised growing areas within it (including Cerrado Mineiro, Sul de Minas and Matas de Minas) that differ in altitude and terrain — represented on CoffeeHQ as a parent region for that reason, rather than treating the whole state as one uniform growing area.

Brazil

A relatively flat, high-altitude plateau region within Minas Gerais, notable among Brazilian growing areas for terrain well suited to mechanised harvesting and for holding one of Brazil's recognised geographical-indication designations for coffee.

Brazil

A hillier, higher-altitude southern area of Minas Gerais with a larger proportion of smallholder farms than the flatter Cerrado Mineiro plateau, widely cited among Brazil's most traditional coffee-growing areas.

Brazil

A growing area spanning the border of São Paulo and Minas Gerais states, with fertile soil historically associated with some of Brazil's earliest large-scale coffee estates during the 19th-century expansion covered in CoffeeHQ's colonial-cultivation history article.

Brazil

Brazil's principal robusta-growing state, where robusta is grown commercially under the regional name Conilon — a genuinely major part of Brazil's total coffee production by volume, distinct in growing conditions and typical use (much goes into instant coffee and blends) from the arabica-dominated Minas Gerais/São Paulo growing areas.

Uganda

A high-altitude arabica-growing area on the slopes of the Rwenzori Mountains in western Uganda — a smaller part of Uganda's coffee production by volume than the country's lowland robusta, but agronomically and commercially distinct from it (higher altitude, arabica rather than robusta, more washed processing).

Tanzania

A high-altitude arabica-growing area on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania, one of the country's most internationally recognised growing regions, predominantly washed-processed and smallholder-grown.

Yemen

A mountainous growing area in western Yemen, widely cited among the country's most recognised coffee-growing districts, characterised by steep hand-built terracing and local landrace varieties rather than internationally standardised cultivars.

India

A growing region in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, widely cited as where coffee cultivation in India first became established, and still one of India's most significant growing areas today — commonly grown under shade intercropped with pepper or other crops rather than in open sun.