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
PROCESS1 base
All1Washed1Honey0Natural0Wet-hulled0Undisclosed0
5 BASES IN THE VOCABULARY · 1 OBSERVED IN THIS CUT
MODIFIER0 modifiers
0 OF 1 MODIFIERS YIELD OFFERINGS HERE · 1 YIELD NOTHING AND ARE NOT DRAWN
REGION0 regions
0 OF 5 REGIONS YIELD OFFERINGS HERE · 5 YIELD NOTHING AND ARE NOT DRAWN
ROASTERPassenger Coffee
1 OF 8 ROASTERS YIELD OFFERINGS HERE · 7 YIELD NOTHING AND ARE NOT DRAWN
VARIETYGesha
2 OF 8 VARIETIES YIELD OFFERINGS HERE · 6 YIELD NOTHING AND ARE NOT DRAWN
CLEAR
showing 1 of 20 · 3 of 10 families · 3 placed notes
FAMILYNAMED NODESOFFERINGS
Floral11 of 1
Floral Aromatics1
Honeysuckle1
Fruity11 of 1
Citrus Fruit1
Lemon1
Nutty / Cocoa11 of 1
Cocoa1
Milk Chocolate1
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=1
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