01 — IDENTITYCURATED RECORD

El Salvador

The smallest coffee landscape in the Americas; birthplace of Pacas and Pacamara.1

HARVESTNovember – March
ELEVATION500 – 2,100 m
BRED HEREPacas (1949) · Pacamara (1958)
PORTAcajutla
VITALS — CURATED
OBSERVED RECORDwhat the pipeline has witnessed · 26 roasters tracked · updated daily

02 — OBSERVED REGIONS

OBSERVED
across 5 current offerings from 4 of 10 tracked roasters · updated 2026-07-17
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ACROSS 5 CURRENT OFFERINGS FROM 4 OF 10 TRACKED ROASTERS · UPDATED 17 JUL 2026
MARKS = OBSERVED REGIONS — POSITION ONLY, NO MAGNITUDE.

03 — FLAVOR RANGE

OBSERVED
across 20 current offerings from 26 of 26 tracked roasters · updated 15 Aug 2026
PROCESS4 bases
5 BASES IN THE VOCABULARY · 4 OBSERVED IN THIS CUT
MODIFIER1 modifier
1 OF 1 MODIFIERS YIELD OFFERINGS HERE
REGION5 regions
VARIETY8 varieties
4 of 10 families · 29 placed notes
FAMILYNAMED NODESOFFERINGS
Fruity1617 of 20
Citrus Fruit8
Lemonade2
Mandarin2
Orange2
Lemon1
Tangerine1
Stone Fruit· 1 placed here7
Cherry4
Peach3
Berry3
Currant3
Tropical Fruit· 1 placed here3
Mango2
Pineapple1
Grape· 1 placed here2
Champagne Grape / Concord Grape1
Apple1
Melon1
Sweet610 of 20
Sweet Aromatics· 3 placed here8
Caramel3
Praline2
Chocolate1
Brown Sugar1
Vanilla1
Nutty / Cocoa69 of 20
Cocoa· 2 placed here8
Dark Chocolate3
Milk Chocolate3
Nutty· 2 placed here5
Pecan2
Almond1
Floral11 of 20
Floral Aromatics1
Honeysuckle1
GROUP COUNTS ARE OFFERINGS MENTIONING ANY NOTE IN THE GROUP — SETS OVERLAP, SO CHILDREN DO NOT SUM TO THEIR PARENT.
A NOTE RESOLVES TO THE DEEPEST NODE IT JUSTIFIES; “PLACED HERE” IS AN INTERIOR NODE STATED IN ITS OWN RIGHT, NOT A ROLL-UP.
n=20
WCFS RANGE MAP

04 — OBSERVED VARIETIES

OBSERVED
across 5 current offerings from 4 of 10 tracked roasters · updated 2026-07-17

05 — OBSERVED PROCESSES

OBSERVED
across 5 current offerings from 4 of 10 tracked roasters · updated 2026-07-17
Washed●●●3
Honey1
Natural1
one dot = one current offering

07 — HARVEST CALENDAR

CURATED RECORD
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MAIN CROP NOVEMBER–MARCH — THE WINDOW WRAPS THE YEAR BOUNDARY2

08 — NARRATIVE

CURATED RECORD

Under the Apaneca–Ilamatepec ridge, a country smaller than most growing regions planted itself edge to edge in shade coffee — and answered with two of the trade’s defining mutations.3

photograph —
terraced rows under the Santa Ana volcano
FIG. 1terraced rows under the Santa Ana volcano
PHOTOGRAPH · SOURCE PENDING EDITORIAL

… narrative continues.

09 — REFERENCES

CURATED RECORD
1.

Instituto Salvadoreño de Investigaciones del Café, Boletín estadístico del café (Santa Tecla: ISIC, 1998), 22–31.

↩ 01 IDENTITY
2.

Consejo Salvadoreño del Café, Calendario de cosecha 2025/26 (Santa Ana: CSC, 2025).

↩ 07 HARVEST
3.

Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Coffee Drink (New York: Penguin Press, 2020), 3–19.

↩ 08 NARRATIVE