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Three northern highland departments produce almost all of it, under some of the heaviest shade in Central America.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Nicaragua's coffee is concentrated in the north: Jinotega and Matagalpa together account for most of the crop, with Nueva Segovia on the Honduran border making up much of the rest. The farms sit under dense shade — this is one of the most consistently shade-grown origins in the region — and range from tiny holdings to genuinely large estates, which is unusual in a part of the world that is otherwise almost entirely smallholder.
It is also where several of the varieties now planted across Central America were popularised. Nicaraguan farms grow a wider spread than their neighbours — Maragogype, Pacamara, Java, Maracaturra alongside the usual Caturra and Bourbon — and the Cup of Excellence programme has run here long enough that the top farms are known by name.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The largest producing department, and the wettest.
The old centre of the industry, with the largest estates.
On the Honduran border — the region Nicaraguan Pacamara made its name from.
A middle ground between the bright Central Americans and the heavier South Americans: medium body, orange and apple acidity, chocolate and caramel sweetness. Pacamara lots from Nueva Segovia are the outlier, and go somewhere else entirely — herbal, tropical, sometimes startlingly floral.
Coffee became the country's main export in the late nineteenth century. Revolution, civil war and land redistribution through the 1980s broke up the estate system and left the sector fragmented; the recovery from the 1990s onwards was built on quality rather than volume, and the specialty reputation dates from then rather than from the estate era.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.