No origin matches that.
The origin that kept its Bourbon when everyone else replanted — and gave the world Pacamara.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
El Salvador is small, densely planted and unusually conservative about varieties. While neighbouring countries replanted through the twentieth century towards higher-yielding hybrids, a large share of Salvadoran land stayed in Bourbon and Pacas, so the country now holds one of the highest concentrations of traditional Bourbon anywhere. Nearly all of it grows under shade, on the volcanic ranges that run east to west across the country.
It is also the origin of Pacamara — a cross of the local Pacas mutation with Maragogype, developed by the national coffee institute in the 1950s—60s. Pacamara is now grown across Central America and is one of the few deliberately bred varieties that competes at the top of the specialty market on flavour rather than yield.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The western volcanic range, and the country's largest and highest growing area.
The eastern volcanoes, around Berlín and Alegría.
A single volcano in the centre of the country, known for balsam-shaded farms.
Round, sweet and gentle: caramel and milk chocolate, soft stone-fruit acidity, a creamy body. It is the classic "balanced" Central American profile taken to its comfortable extreme. Pacamara lots break the pattern with a much bigger, more aromatic cup — herbal and floral, with tropical fruit and a long finish.
Coffee replaced indigo as the export crop in the nineteenth century and reshaped land ownership around it. Civil war from 1979 to 1992 cut production hard, and one accidental consequence was preservation: farms that could not afford to replant kept their old Bourbon in the ground, which is precisely what the specialty market later came looking for.
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Country outlines and shaded relief from Natural Earth, which places them in the public domain.
Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.