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Peru · Administrative region

Amazonas

Amazonas, in Peru's far north, spreads across seven coffee-producing provinces, but its specialty core is the cloud-forest valleys of Rodríguez de Mendoza — a landscape where coffee grows under mist rather than open sun, on smallholder farms that number in the hundreds per .

Documented growing altitudes for the Mendoza valleys run commonly around 1,500–2,000 m, among the more consistent high- windows in northern Peru. The mix is classic northern Peruvian: Bourbon, and Typica with Pache in many plots, delivered as washed lots through cooperatives of several hundred smallholders.

In the cup, buyers commonly describe Amazonas lots as floral and honeyed, with a clean, delicate structure — a profile that has quietly made Rodríguez de Mendoza one of the more sought-after northern names in Peruvian specialty. As always, that is a general tendency, never a guarantee; every lot is - and season-specific.

Editorial coffee-region artwork for Amazonas; not a verified photograph of the region
Editorial illustration · not a verified farm photograph
Geographic classification
Administrative region
Recorded verification date: 2026-09-20
Harvest timing
Approximate national-level pattern: a main harvest broadly from roughly April to September/October, with timing varying by zone, province and altitude within the country; regional windows should not be inferred from national data.
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Farms & producers in our database

These are documented directory relationships, not independently verified farm visits or lot traceability. Follow individual profiles to inspect available sources.

NOT YET DOCUMENTED IN OUR DATABASE — that means we haven't documented it yet, not that it doesn't exist.