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.

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 20 current offerings from 26 of 26 tracked roasters · updated 15 Aug 2026

showing 9 of 20 · 3 of 10 families · 18 placed notes

FAMILYNAMED NODESOFFERINGS

Fruity119 of 9

Citrus Fruit5

Lemonade2

Mandarin1

Orange1

Tangerine1

Stone Fruit4

Peach3

Cherry2

Tropical Fruit· 1 placed here3

Mango2

Pineapple1

Apple1

Grape1

Champagne Grape / Concord Grape1

Sweet56 of 9

Sweet Aromatics· 2 placed here5

Praline2

Caramel1

Chocolate1

Brown Sugar1

Nutty / Cocoa22 of 9

Cocoa1

Dark Chocolate1

Nutty1

Almond1

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

PacamaraSanta Ana · Chalatenango×2 BourbonUsulután×1 PacasAhuachapán×1 GeshaSanta Ana×1

italic detail = departments witnessed

05 — OBSERVED PROCESSES

OBSERVED

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

Washed●●●3

Honey●1

Natural●1

one dot = one current offering

06 — LIVE OFFERINGS

OBSERVED · LIVE

current sightings — who is selling El Salvador right now

ALTA LUZFinca El Retiro

Santa Ana · Pacamara

Washed

seen 16 Jul

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COMMON GRADESan Ernesto Lot 3

Chalatenango · Pacamara

Washed

seen 15 Jul

↗

PAPER CRANELos Pirineos

Usulután · Bourbon

Honey

seen 14 Jul

↗

KESTRELSanta Rosa

Ahuachapán · Pacas

Washed

seen 12 Jul

↗

NORTHBOUNDEl Carmen

Santa Ana · Gesha

Natural

seen 10 Jul

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these are all 5 current El Salvador offerings — open in Roast Radar →

07 — HARVEST CALENDAR

CURATED RECORD

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

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

↩ 01 IDENTITY

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

↩ 07 HARVEST

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

↩ 08 NARRATIVE