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Once a rival to Colombia; now almost entirely drunk at home, and rarely seen abroad.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Venezuela grows Arabica in the Andean states along the Colombian border — Táchira, Mérida and Trujillo — plus a smaller belt in the coastal mountains around Lara. The growing conditions are the same ones that make Colombian coffee what it is; the difference is entirely in what happened to the industry around them.
For most of the twentieth century Venezuela was a serious exporter. Oil revenue, price controls, nationalised marketing and then economic collapse took production from several million bags to a few hundred thousand, and export effectively stopped: what is grown now is largely consumed domestically, and some coffee crosses the border informally into Colombia. Bags reaching specialty roasters outside the country are rare enough to be an event.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
On the Colombian border, and historically the source of the Cúcuta trade name.
The highest Venezuelan growing area, in the central Andes.
The coastal range around Sanare — drier, and the old Maracaibo shipping hinterland.
Historically prized for being soft and low-acid — sweet, nutty, with chocolate and a full round body, closer to a Caribbean profile than to the bright Andean one next door. The little that reaches export today still shows that character where it has been carefully processed.
Coffee overtook cacao as the main export in the nineteenth century and Venezuela was among the world's largest producers before oil was found. The Maracaibo and Cúcuta trade names date from that period. Successive price-control and nationalisation policies from the 1970s onwards, and the wider economic crisis after 2013, reduced the sector to a fraction of its former size.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.