Coffee Production in Honduras

This map is showing 13 major countries in the Central American Region. As you zoom in, you can see more feautures (national capitals and cities). If you zoom into Honduras, you can see departments and coffee producing regions... Now we will focus on this area of interest.

Departments are depicted by white boundaries, and coffee growing regions are shown by light green symbology.

Honduras is small country in the center of Central America. Honduras is divided into 18 different departments. Its location and climate is ideal for growing coffee, and it is the world's fifth biggest coffee producer by volume. Although coffee is grown in all departments, it flourishes the most in the central and western mountainous regions. The departments of El Paraiso, La Paz, Comayagua, and Copan produce and grow the most coffee. These regions are shown on the map. The coffee harvest season goes from November to April, and the best quality coffee is grown in higher altitudes - above 1,350 meters ("TechnoServe," 2020).

There are six major geographic regions in Honduras that grow coffee. All of these regions are found in mountainous areas - high altitudes at or above an elevation of 1 kilometer. These include: Copan (1-1.5 km), Agalta (1.1-1.4 km), El Paraiso (1.4 km), Montecillos (1.6 km), Opalaca (1.5 km), and Comayagua (1-1. km). These regions are located in west/central part of the country, in the departments of Copan, Santa Barbara, Ocotepeque, Lempira, Intibucá, La Paz, Comayagua, Francisco Morazán, and El Paraiso. Of these departments, some produce more coffee than others. The six major coffee producing regions are found in medium and high producing departments (Guerra, 2021).

The four plant "sketches" shown in the map above represent the heighest coffee producing and growing areas of Honduras. The Comayagua region has the highest coffee production yield in the country, according to the Honduran Coffee Institute. The Comayagua region is made up of the departments of Comayagua and Francisco Morazán (Fourniere, 2022).