Where Colombia's first recorded commercial coffee export left from the border city of Cúcuta in 1808.
Cúcuta, on the Venezuelan border, shipped Colombia's first recorded commercial coffee export, 100 bags of 60 kg, in 1808. A priest named Francisco Romero is credited with spreading the crop in the northeast, reportedly by requiring coffee planting as penance in Salazar de las Palmas. Royal Coffee places Norte de Santander in the Northern Zone, with a single harvest typically in September-December.
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Colombia's first commercial coffee export, 100 bags, left from Cúcuta in 1808.
Elsewhere in Colombia
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