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Haiti, located in the north of the Caribbean Sea and west of Hispaniola Island, covers an area of about 27800 square kilometers.

It is bordered by the Dominican Republic to the east, the Caribbean Sea to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the north, and Cuba and Jamaica to the west across the Strait. It is an island country in the eastern Caribbean with a coastline of more than 1080 kilometers. The region where the country is located is on the circum-Pacific seismic belt. The whole territory is mountainous, and there are only narrow plains along the coast and along the river. The word Haiti means "mountainous country" in Indian. The highest peak in the country is Mount Lassar in the Lassar Mountains, 2680 meters above sea level. The main rivers are the Artibonite River, which is an important agricultural area. There is a tropical rain forest climate in the north and a savanna climate in the south. This mountainous country is also the most disaster-prone region on earth, it has been in the midst of war and poverty, and it is one of the most material-poor countries in the world. Even so, it can't stop this country from having the gift of nature, and its biggest export is coffee.

In 1725, Haiti officially began to grow coffee in the north, and now produces and exports about 600000 bags of coffee a year. Unfortunately, even in the final selection stage, Haiti does not distinguish between the quality of coffee beans on each farm. Coffee beans are mixed with the good and the bad. General Haitian coffee, mainly exported to European countries, led by France, is used to make blended coffee.

However, there is another part of the coffee, which is carefully planted in the high mountains and then refined. Most of these coffees are called "SHG Coffee" (meaning coffee grown above 1600 meters above sea level), and some are also called "Port-au-Prince Coffee" and "Blue Haitian Coffee". These coffees are famous and expensive.

Most of the coffee produced in Haiti is grown in a purely natural state, which is not intentional but the result of material shortages because coffee farmers are too poor to buy fungicides, insecticides and fertilizers. On the contrary, this makes the coffee produced in Haiti the most natural and pollution-free. Haitian coffee is full-grained, rich in flavor, medium to low acidity and mild in taste. In Japan, Haitian coffee is often mixed with Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, which makes Blue Mountain Coffee more full-bodied and is called Blue Mountain's good companion.

PS: Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, is the largest city in the country and a famous port in the West Indies, with a population of about 2 million. Port-au-Prince was founded in 1749 and replaced Cap-Ha ï tien as the colonial capital of French Santo Domingo in 1770. In 1804, Haiti became independent and Port-au-Prince became the capital. Port-au-Prince has been devastated by earthquakes, hurricanes and war, and its development has been slow. The building of the city is round trapezoid, extending from the lower to the hillside. The city street is narrow and the port commercial district is arched.