No origin matches that.
Half the world's coffee came from here in 1789. What survives is old Typica, grown in forest gardens.
Production figures are for the 2024 calendar year.
Haiti is the most historically significant coffee origin that almost no one now drinks. In the late eighteenth century the French colony of Saint-Domingue supplied somewhere around half of all the coffee in the world; today the country produces a few tens of thousands of bags, most of it consumed domestically or traded informally across the border into the Dominican Republic.
What remains is genuinely interesting. Much of the surviving stock is old Typica, grown in mixed forest gardens under fruit and hardwood shade rather than in orchards — the *jardin créole* system — which makes the coffee incidentally organic and shade-grown by default. Deforestation, political instability, hurricanes and the collapse of rural infrastructure are the reasons volume has not recovered, not the growing conditions, which remain excellent.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The south-eastern plateau near the Dominican border — the best-known growing area.
The southern peninsula around Beaumont, in forest-garden cultivation.
The northern mountains around Marmelade and Dondon.
At its best the old Typica gives a sweet, soft, low-acid cup with chocolate, almond and a heavy syrupy body — the classic Caribbean profile, and the reference point for what the region tasted like before modern varieties. Much of the crop is wet-processed by hand in small batches, so consistency varies sharply between lots.
Coffee was introduced in 1725 and became the colony's second export after sugar, produced under a slave system of extreme brutality. The revolution of 1791—1804 ended both the system and the plantation model; production continued on smallholdings and remained a leading export well into the twentieth century before declining steeply after the 1980s.
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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.