Nariño

Nariño borders Ecuador and grows coffee unusually high for its latitude, with many farms above 2,000 m on steep Andean slopes. Mercanta records around 1,666 sunshine hours and 1,866 mm of rain a year in the coffee zone.

Country
Colombia
Altitude
1,800–2,300m
Harvest
May–Julmain crop
Location
1.60° N77.87° W · Wikidata

What grows here

Harvest months

  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec

Main cropFly crop

Cauca and Nariño: Cafe Imports May-July main with a November-January fly crop; Mercanta says the south runs the reverse of the centre. Neither gives arrival months for the south. Cauca and Nariño fly crop per Cafe Imports.

Varieties

CastilloColombiaCaturraTypicaBourbonTabi

Processing

Washed (wet, fully washed)

Elsewhere in Colombia

Colombia: 13.4M bags a year