Kodagu's district headquarters, in the Western Ghats, known as Mercara in British times.
Madikeri (earlier Mercara, its name from the British period beginning in 1834) is the headquarters of Kodagu district, at about 1,170 m in the Western Ghats. It is very wet, with annual rainfall of roughly 3,900 mm in recent years.
Field notes
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Madikeri was known as Mercara under British administration.
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The Coffee Board's Madikeri zone is the more balanced of its two Kodagu zones, with 25,300 ha of arabica and 29,826 ha of robusta planted in 2022-23.
Sources · 3 Every sentence here was checked against a source we read. Taste notes are what guides describe, not promises about your bag. Last revised 2026-11-10. Some details here are less settled than others.
- Madikeri · Wikimedia Foundation
- Kodagu district · Wikimedia Foundation
- Database on Coffee, July 2023 · Coffee Board of India, Market Intelligence Unit