Mundo Maya is a very high-yielding, highly rust-resistant F1 hybrid crossing a Sarchimor line with a wild Ethiopian accession.
Mundo Maya is an F1 hybrid (T5296 x wild Ethiopian accession ET01 from the CATIE collection) bred by CIRAD-ECOM and selected in Nicaragua. WCR describes it as very high yielding in healthy soil with very good quality above 1300 m, well adapted to agroforestry, highly resistant to coffee leaf rust, and resistant to some Meloidogyne nematodes (though not Pratylenchus spp.).
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Its Ethiopian parent is accession ET01 from CATIE's collection, originally gathered by the ORSTOM/IRD mission, and ECOM-CIRAD made the selection in Nicaragua.
Family tree
Mundo Maya is an F1 hybrid of T5296 and Ethiopian Landrace.
Grown in
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- Arabica Varieties — A global catalog of Arabica coffee varieties from around the world (PDF, rev. Sept 4, 2025) · World Coffee Research
- World Coffee Research variety page: Mundo Maya · World Coffee Research