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 · 27 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.
Santa AnaApaneca–Ilamatepec range×2
ChalatenangoAlotepec–Metapán range×1
UsulutánTecapa–Chinameca range×1
Ahuachapánno region recorded×1
every row matches a mark on the map

03 — FLAVOR RANGE

OBSERVED
across 17 current offerings from 27 of 27 tracked roasters · updated 01 Oct 2026
PROCESSWashed
5 BASES IN THE VOCABULARY · 4 OBSERVED IN THIS CUT
MODIFIER0 modifiers
0 OF 1 MODIFIERS YIELD OFFERINGS HERE · 1 YIELD NOTHING AND ARE NOT DRAWN
REGION3 regions
3 OF 4 REGIONS YIELD OFFERINGS HERE · 1 YIELD NOTHING AND ARE NOT DRAWN
ROASTER5 roasters
5 OF 8 ROASTERS YIELD OFFERINGS HERE · 3 YIELD NOTHING AND ARE NOT DRAWN
VARIETY4 varieties
4 OF 7 VARIETIES YIELD OFFERINGS HERE · 3 YIELD NOTHING AND ARE NOT DRAWN
CLEAR
showing 9 of 17 · 5 of 10 families · 19 placed notes
FAMILYNAMED NODESOFFERINGS
Fruity88 of 9
Citrus Fruit5
Orange2
Lemon1
Mandarin1
Tangerine1
Stone Fruit4
Cherry2
Peach2
Plum1
Grape1
Nutty / Cocoa46 of 9
Cocoa5
Milk Chocolate3
Dark Chocolate2
Nutty3
Pecan2
Almond1
Sweet45 of 9
Sweet Aromatics· 3 placed here5
Caramel1
Chocolate1
Molasses1
Floral22 of 9
Floral Aromatics2
Honeysuckle1
Rose1
Spices11 of 9
Brown Spice1
Ginger1
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=9
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●●●3Honey●1Natural●1
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.

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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.

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