Region that now includes Orosi, listed by ICAFE at 600-1,300 m with a June to February harvest. Home of the very large Aquiares estate.
Turrialba is one of Costa Rica's coffee regions, and in ICAFE's current map it also takes in the former Orosi region. ICAFE's 2024 table lists it at 600-1,300 m, harvested June to February, with about 4.9% of the national crop. An older Wikipedia table gave 600-1,200 m, normal acidity and little body. The Aquiares estate on the slopes of the Turrialba Volcano is described by Cup of Excellence as founded in 1890 by the British Lindo family.
Field notes
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Aquiares, on the slopes of the Turrialba Volcano, covers 924 hectares with about 80% in coffee and the rest forest, and calls itself the largest single-block coffee plantation in Costa Rica.
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Aquiares has been Rainforest Alliance Certified since 2003 and reports carbon neutrality since 2016.
In the cup, according to guides
- BodyLessBody is listed as little.
Elsewhere in Costa Rica
Sources · 6 Every sentence here was checked against a source we read. Taste notes are what guides describe, not promises about your bag. Last revised 2026-11-11. Some details here are less settled than others.
- Coffee production in Costa Rica · Wikipedia
- Tres Ríos desaparece del mapa de las regiones cafetaleras de Costa Rica; vea todos los cambios que hizo el Icafé · El Financiero (Costa Rica)
- 24.000 familias dependen de la producción de café en Costa Rica · CRHoy
- Costa Rica: Caficultura, recursos geneticos e investigacion (slides, 2024) · Cenicafe (Colombia), slides by J. C. Arias Suarez quoting ICAFE data
- Aquiares Estate, Costa Rica 2024 (Cup of Excellence National Winner) · Cup of Excellence / Alliance for Coffee Excellence
- Regenerative coffee farming in Costa Rica, now and into the future · Rainforest Alliance