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Colombian Coffee Foodways

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Agricultural region

Colombia is among the largest producers of washed ARABICA and the largest of mild arabica; coffee arrived in the eighteenth century and became the export that built the Andean economy. The EJE CAFETERO — Caldas, Quindío, Risaralda and parts of Valle, Tolima and Antioquia — is inscribed by UNESCO as the COFFEE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, a heritage listing for a farmed landscape and its settlement pattern of small family fincas. Also grown in Huila, Nariño, Cauca, Santander and the Sierra Nevada. The domestic drink is the TINTO, small, black, sweetened, carried in a thermos and sold on every street. ⚠ JUAN VALDEZ IS A 1959 ADVERTISING CREATION of the coffee growers’ federation, not a person or a tradition, and is recorded as marketing.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • The Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, covering parts of Caldas, Quindío, Risaralda and Valle del Cauca, is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list as a cultural landscape of small family holdings. Juan Valdez is documented as an advertising character created in 1959 for the national federation of coffee growers, and is recorded as marketing rather than as tradition. documented
  • The colonización antioqueña settles the central cordillera and plants the coffee belt that becomes the Coffee Cultural Landscape. documented
  • Juan Valdez is created as an advertising character for the national federation of coffee growers — marketing, not tradition. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Ethiopian Cuisine documented

    Coffee is an Ethiopian plant; Colombia is among the largest producers of washed arabica and the crop is a colonial-era introduction.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Central American Coffee documented
  • related to Venezuelan Coffee 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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