No origin matches that.
Tiny volumes from the Yungas, and one of the most consistently high-scoring origins per bag produced.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Bolivia produces very little coffee — well under a tenth of a percent of the world crop — and almost all of it comes from the Yungas, the steep cloud-forest valleys where the Andes drop towards the Amazon basin north of La Paz. Farms are small, high, and reached by some of the worst roads in the coffee world, which is the practical reason the country's reputation has always outrun its volume.
Production fell for years as growers moved to other crops, and the turnaround since has been driven almost entirely by the specialty market: a small number of exporters running centralised wet mills, buying cherry rather than parchment, and paying for quality that smallholders could not otherwise capture. The result is an origin where most of what leaves the country is genuinely good.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The centre of Bolivian specialty coffee, and the name on nearly every bag.
Chulumani and the southern valleys — older plantings, smaller lots.
A small eastern growing area around Samaipata, well away from the Yungas.
Clean, sweet and delicate — closer in register to a washed Central American than to its Peruvian neighbour. Expect honey and caramel sweetness, soft citrus and red apple acidity, a light silky body, and floral aromatics on the highest Caranavi lots.
Coffee has been grown in the Yungas since the colonial period, long farmed under the hacienda system and redistributed to smallholders after the 1952 revolution. For most of the twentieth century the crop went into low-grade bulk export; the shift to specialty dates only from the 2000s, and much of the current quality infrastructure was built after 2010.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.