El Salvador

El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America, but it has an outsized place in coffee history. Much of its coffee grows on the slopes of a chain of volcanoes, and a large share of its farms still grow old Bourbon trees. Two well-known varieties come from here: Pacas, a natural mutation of Bourbon found on a Salvadoran farm, and Pacamara, a cross between Pacas and Maragogipe developed by Salvadoran researchers.

Most of the country's coffee is shade-grown, and coffee farms make up a large part of its remaining forest cover. Processing is mostly washed, with honey and natural lots becoming more common.

Harvest typically runs from November through March.