Fine raw bean growing area detailed introduction of the coffee producing area of Diamond Hill Manor in Costa Rica

Fine raw bean growing area detailed introduction of the coffee producing area of Diamond Hill Manor in Costa Rica

Costa Rica is located in the Central American isthmus, belonging to North America, latitude 10 °north, longitude 84 °west. It is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the east and the North Pacific Ocean to the west, with a coastline of 1290 km (212km on the east coast and 1016 km on the west coast). Costa Rica borders Nicaragua in the north (309 km long border) and Panama (639 km long border) south-southeast. There are a total of 51100 square kilometers, including 50660 square kilometers of territory and 440 square kilometers of territorial sea, which is slightly smaller than West Virginia in the United States and equivalent to Ireland.

Costa Rica accounts for only 0.03% of the world's land area, but with nearly 4% of the world's species, Costa Rica is one of the countries with the richest biological species in the world. 26% of the land area is a national park or nature reserve, including 11 wetlands, 2 biological reserves and 3 World Natural Heritage sites. The national forest coverage is 52%.

The cultivation of coffee in Costa Rica has a long history, but in the past 10 years, the new "dry" treatment has become a trend, collectively referred to as the "honey treatment". Honey treatment is a kind of treatment between sun drying and water washing. It keeps the coffee clean by washing, and because it is dried in the sun together with the pulp mucosa, it greatly increases the sweetness and caramel flavor of the coffee (the sugar content of the pulp mucosa is extremely high). Honey treatment first appeared in Costa Rica in Central America.

There are eight Costa Rican producing areas, of which Tarazu, the Central Valley and the Western Valley are recognized as the three best producing areas. Las Lajas is located in the foothills of Sabanilla de Alajuela and Poas Volcano in the Central Valley. Strictly speaking, "Lajas" is actually the name of the Chakon family processing plant. The name of the manor is Finca La Mirella, but bean bakers all over the world are also used to calling it Finca las lajas.

There are many excellent producing areas in Costa Rica, and the high-quality producing areas of Costa Rica have a common understanding of quality, that is, it requires the use of mature coffee fruits to ensure the production of high-quality coffee.

Generally speaking, a large amount of water is used in the post-processing of the picked coffee fruit, but the advanced production equipment in Costa Rica saves the use of water resources to the greatest extent, and a circulating filter is used to treat the waste water from washing coffee beans. let the waste water be purified into clean water to prevent pollution of the local soil environment.