Fragrant Salvadoran Coffee Manor. Introduction to Mercedes Manor.

In El Salvador, the coffee beans rich in the Kuskabapa region are the best, slightly lighter, fragrant, pure and slightly sour. Like Guatemala and Costa Rica, coffee in El Salvador is graded according to altitude, and the higher the altitude, the better the coffee. The best brand is Pip, whose quality has been recognized by the American Organic Certification Society. Another rare coffee is Parkmara, a hybrid of Pacas coffee and Marago Rippi coffee, best produced in western El Salvador, adjacent to Santa Ana, which is close to the border with Guatemala. Parkmara coffee is full-grained, but the aroma is not very strong. El Salvador is one of the small countries in Central America with a very dense population. People here love coffee. The coffee in El Salvador tastes well balanced. Salvadoran coffee exports account for 40% of the country's exports. The best quality coffee is exported from January to March each year, and 35% of the extra hard beans are exported to Germany. In the early 1990s, due to the impact of war, the national economy of El Salvador was greatly damaged, even destroyed. Coffee production dropped from 3.5 million bags in the early 1970s to 2.5 million bags in El Salvador from 1990 to 1991. It is located in northwest Central America and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the south. It is one of the birthplaces of ancient Mayan civilization. The nearby volcanoes, plateaus, lakes and bathing beaches along the Pacific coast are all very pleasant. But El Salvador is best known for its unique, mild-tasting coffee city that was once one of the main centers of the slave trade in colonial Africa. In 1558, the first African slaves arrived here and engaged in sugar cane cultivation. Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the port of El Salvador became the main trading center of Portugal; it was located on the triangular trade route between Africa, Brazil and Europe. Many European immigrants settled in this city.

In the 17th century, when Portugal was still under Spanish rule, El Salvador was often attacked by the Dutch. In order to defend the city, many fortresses were built. In 1625, the city was again ruled by the Portuguese.

The ancient city, built on a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean, occupies the end of a mountainous island and is divided into cities by a steep slope.

Scenery of El Salvador

Scenery of El Salvador

And the cities below (upper and lower cities) can be reached by elevator or climb on foot. The city wall preserved along the steep slope is arched. The upper city overlooks the activities of the people in the city below. The uptown has baroque buildings and many small squares, public buildings, dwellings and gardens. They are simple and elegant and keep better than the lower city. The streets here are numerous and narrow, with a variety of patterns on the road, paved with black and white stones; downtown, there is the Modrow market near the port, where houses and people's activities are carried out around the port and commerce, where the slave trade was once very popular, and now it is an extremely bustling handicraft market.