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Huila’s Coffee, the Most Recognized High-Quality Origins

This Protected Denomination of Origin not only has unique cup attributes, but comes from a region characterized by its leadership in production of coffees of the highest quality (Specialty Coffee).

Huila is a department located to the south of the Andean region. Right now it's the leading department both in coffee production and quality even if coffee arrived to this region only at the beginning of last century. Since then, coffee-growing traditions have been kept.

Huila is the epicenter of the best specialty coffees. This is proved by the consecutive titles that the “opitas (native to Huila)” coffee growers have won in the Cup of Excellence competition and by high premiums that foreign buyers pay for high-quality coffees produced here. In the last edition of Cup of Excellence, Huila was ratified as origin of high-quality coffees.

Coffee growing in this department is also characterized by production of coffee with awareness of sustainable farming, taking into account conservation of soils, respect for natural forests and rational use of the environmental offer.

Huila producers are aware that quality and consistency are crucial to improve their revenues, with programs and additional social services that help them improve their quality of life, seeing the farm as a business unit that must be profitable and competitive. A total of 155.000 hectares are planted with coffee in 35 municipalities. Semi-shade grown coffee is relatively important in this region.

This department is the origin of rivers among mountains, showing a variety of landscapes with many natural elements such as volcanoes, low and undulating lands, rains, winds and temperatures that vary according to altitudes. It is known that in this department there are different thermal floors, such as warm, moorland, cold and mostly temperate ones.

But beyond privileged geographic conditions, commitment and devotion of Huila farmers to quality, caring for each of the processing stages, have contributed to highlight intrinsic qualities of coffee.

Huila's Specialty Coffee Features

Huila’s coffee offers a balanced overall impression with sweet notes, medium/high acidity and body in the cup, intense fragrance/aroma with candied and fruit feelings, what has forged its national and international reputation along time.

Some important characteristics of this region and the coffee it produces are the following; 

The Denomination of Origin Café del Huila covers the soft washed arabica coffee, which is processed sensorially to have a balanced overall impression, with sweet notes, acidity and medium / high body, intense fragrance / aroma with fruity and caramelised sensations. This cup profile is derived from climatic and geographic factors typical of this region, such as fewer hours of solar brightness (3.5 hours / day) due to cloudiness, constant temperatures during the day favoring the accumulation of chemical compounds in the fruit and ranges of height between 1000 and 2200 meters above sea level. Resulting in a coffee bean with uniform cup characteristics, despite the chemical variations that occur in the process of roasting.