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One of the very few countries that grows both species well — and the only one that grows coffee on the Galápagos.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Ecuador is small in volume and unusually varied in what it produces. The Andes run the length of the country, so Arabica grows high in Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe in the south; Robusta grows in the coastal lowlands and the Amazonian east. By the USDA's numbers Robusta is the larger share of the crop, which surprises people who only know the country through its specialty Arabica.
The specialty sector is young and deliberately experimental. A generation of producers around Loja and Pichincha has invested in Geisha, Sidra, Typica Mejorado and long anaerobic fermentations, and Ecuadorian lots now show up regularly near the top of international auctions. Volumes remain genuinely tiny — the country imports coffee to meet its own consumption.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The southern highlands, and the source of most Ecuadorian specialty Arabica.
East of Loja, on the Amazonian slope — high, wet and increasingly named.
The coastal province — historically the export centre, now largely Robusta and Typica.
The high southern Arabicas are floral and bright, with jasmine and citrus aromatics and a tea-like body — Sidra and Typica Mejorado lots especially. Experimental fermentations push into intense tropical fruit and winey sweetness. Lowland Robusta is a separate product entirely, and mostly goes into soluble.
Coffee arrived in the early nineteenth century and Ecuador was for a time a significant exporter, including from Manabí on the coast. Oil, bananas and cut flowers displaced it through the twentieth century, and the plantings that survived did so at altitude in the south. The current specialty push dates from around 2010.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.