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Venezuelan Coffee

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Agricultural region

⚠ VENEZUELA WAS ONCE A MAJOR COFFEE EXPORTER AND IS NO LONGER. Coffee from the Andes — Táchira, Mérida, Trujillo — and from Lara and Portuguesa, was the country’s principal export before oil, and production has since fallen so far that Venezuela imports coffee. What survives is the drinking culture, which is elaborate and specific: GUAYOYO (weak black), NEGRITO (small and black), MARRÓN (with milk, and marrón claro or oscuro depending on proportion), CORTADITO, TETERO (mostly milk). Ordered at a panadería counter by name, and the vocabulary is national.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Coffee was Venezuela’s principal export before petroleum. Production has since declined to the point that Venezuela imports coffee. The elaborated national vocabulary for coffee preparations — guayoyo, negrito, marrón, cortadito, tetero — remains in general use. documented
  • Coffee is Venezuela’s principal export, grown in the Andes and Lara, before petroleum displaces it. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Colombian Coffee Foodways documented

    Táchira and the Colombian Norte de Santander grew the same crop on the same mountains; Venezuela’s production has since collapsed.

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