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Peru · Cajamarca
Peru La Conquista
Nicolás Chilcón Tocto
Intelligentsia Coffee
La Conquista
· Washed
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La Conquista
This is a research profile, not an independently conducted farm visit. Producer and coffee relationships are shown only when the records agree. Check the research sources below for supporting evidence.
The story
Crop to Cup identifies Nicolás Chilcón as a fifth-generation coffee farmer and traces this coffee to his single farm, La Conquista. Its own page conflicts on secondary cultivars—structured metadata says Catimor while the narrative says Caturra—so only Bourbon is retained as consistently documented.
Challenges
The farm operates with modest infrastructure and relies on manual labor and collective work arrangements known as mingas for harvesting. Producers in the region face the ongoing necessity of maintaining consistent quality while managing small-scale production systems.
Innovations
Certified-organic cultivation, mixed-crop interplanting, selective cherry sorting, glazed-tile tank fermentation, washing, and solar drying are documented by Crop to Cup.
Published coffees linked to this farm
For blends, a farm may be named for one documented component without growing the entire coffee. These catalog relationships do not independently verify every lot, harvest or producer. See individual coffee profiles for traceability evidence.
Editorial illustrationResearch sources & verification
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Research last reviewed: 2026-10-29