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Republic of El Salvador, Spanish Rep ú blica de El Salvador, English the Republic of El Salvador.

It is located in Central America, bordering Guatemala and Honduras in the north, and the Pacific coastline in the west and south.

The smallest country in Central America and the most densely populated country in Central America. The land area is 21393 square kilometers, the population is 6.25 million (data 2012), and the population density is 327 people / square kilometers.

The economy is dominated by agriculture, with a per capita GDP of US $3722 in 2011. Agricultural products are mainly coffee and cotton.

The country is divided into 14 provinces, 7 of which produce coffee.

There are many volcanoes in the territory, with the name of "the country of volcanoes". The lowest elevation in the territory is 0 meters, and the highest is 2385 meters of Santa Ana active volcano.

It became a Spanish colony in 1524.

Independence from Spain in 1821.

In 1824, he joined the Union of Central America, including Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

In 1841, he seceded from the Union, became independent, and established a republic.

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Picture: national flag and national emblem of El Salvador

A brief History of Coffee production

In 1742, coffee was introduced to El Salvador from the Caribbean (1740).

In the mid-19th century, El Salvador's original export pillar Indigo (one of the dyes) received a gradual decline in the development of synthetic dyes in Europe, and coffee gradually became the main export product under the guidance of the government.

In 1856, the first 693 bags of coffee beans were shipped to Europe. Europe was El Salvador's chief coffee customer until World War II, which was replaced by the United States after World War II.

In the 1970s, El Salvador produced a record 350000 bags of coffee. With the intensification of the civil war, the coffee industry was in turmoil.

Coffee production in El Salvador was once affected by domestic political instability. In 1992, the parties signed a peace agreement and the civil war was suspended. The coffee industry began to recover.

Present situation of coffee production

"natural and man-made disasters" and "ill-fated" are the most appropriate words to describe the challenges facing the coffee industry in El Salvador. Despite the haze of war, El Salvador's coffee production still faces challenges from time to time, including: 1998, hurricanes; 2001, earthquakes; 2002, volcanic eruptions; 2012, leaf rust.

Despite the challenges, El Salvador maintained a high level of coffee production, according to ICO International Coffee Organization, from 2008 to 2012, total coffee production in El Salvador remained at the Top15 level among ICO member countries. In 2013, affected by leaf rust disaster

70% of domestic farms are infected, and output has dropped sharply by about 40%, falling to 16.

El Salvador 08-13 Total coffee production and ranking (unit: 000 bags, each bag 60kg)

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Coffee variety

The civil war caused chaos and affected economic development, but ironically allowed the ancient coffee to be preserved, and the situation was so chaotic that coffee producers in El Salvador failed to catch up with the renewal of coffee varieties in Central and South America.

El Salvador produces 100% Arabica coffee, of which 68% is Bourbon, Coffea arabica var. Bourbon), 29% Pacas, other varieties including Pacamara,Caturra, etc.

The Pacas variety, first discovered in El Salvador in 1949, is a natural hybrid between bourbon and Catura.

The variety Pacamara, which was artificially bred by pacas and maragogipe (or maragogype), was first bred in 1958 (1954). Pacamara species is a rare artificial breeding of excellent varieties, blue is better than blue, perfectly inheriting the advantages of the mother plant, both the excellent taste of pacas species, raw bean granules also inherited the large size of malagogipe. The Pacamara species is thought to be the result of the pursuit of large Arabica species.