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The largest organic coffee origin in the world, grown by smallholders on the eastern slope of the Andes.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Peru grows Arabica only, on the forested eastern flank of the Andes where the mountains fall away towards the Amazon. Almost all of it is smallholder work — farms of a couple of hectares, organised into cooperatives that handle milling and export, because no individual plot produces enough to fill a container.
That cooperative structure is why Peru certifies at the scale it does. Organic and Fair Trade certification are close to the default here rather than a premium niche, and for years Peru has been the largest single source of certified-organic Arabica on the market. The trade-off is infrastructure: lots travel a long way on poor roads before reaching a dry mill, and consistency has historically been the origin's weak point rather than potential.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The northern highlands, and the source of most of Peru's competition lots.
Rodríguez de Mendoza and the Utcubamba valley — high, remote and increasingly named on bags.
The largest producing department by volume, much of it certified organic.
Chanchamayo and Satipo, the old centre of the industry in the central jungle.
Gentle and sweet rather than loud: soft citric acidity, caramel and toffee, a smooth medium body, and often a nutty or cocoa finish. The highest lots from Cajamarca and Amazonas push into floral aromatics and brighter stone fruit, which is where Peru's competition lots come from.
Coffee arrived in the eighteenth century but stayed a domestic crop until European demand and, later, land reform pushed it into the northern highlands. Political violence through the 1980s emptied parts of the growing regions; the rebuilding that followed was organised around cooperatives, which is why the sector looks the way it does today.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.