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The origin of the coffee starts in Ethiopia, Africa

Ancient tribes saw as goats went crazy when they ate some wild
berries and turn it more energetic, they did try and taste its
benefits.
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The most accepted legend comes from the Kaldi’s tribe in the top
lands of Ethiopia. His origin of the both the plant and its
consumption is from the Africa continent
COFFEE IN THE ARAB WORLD

Several authors consider them than the coffee

expansion to Arab world began between VIII and XIII
century. The Arabs started the ingestion of coffee
around XV century.
 EUROPEAN EXPANSION
The European Coffee’s history starts at 1575 with
Leonhard Rauwolf, Germanic botanical who had
mentioned in one of his expeditions
 EUROPEAN EXPANSION
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The Yemeni's port of Mocha, over the Red Sea, was
constituted in the main center of coffee commerce until the
XVII century. In the early XVII century, the coffee intake
travel from Turkey to Europe. Came in Italy through Venice
and later goes to Netherlands, France, England and
Germany.
 THE ASIAN BOOM
At the same time, the coffee drink reached the Asian
continent entering to India. A little later came in to
Japan and China.
 THE ASIAN BOOM
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The expansion of the crop in many countries was
possible across the Dutch because they didn’t want
depend from the Arabs to get the coffee beans. Dutch
got seeds and begin the grow at India and Sri Lanka
 COFFEE ARRIVES TO
AMERICA
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Coffee had introduced to “The New World”, through
New York called at that time New Amsterdam in the
mid-1600. But until 1773 had converted into «The
perfect infusion»
 COFFEE ARRIVES TO
AMERICA
In 1689 at Boston, USA, was launched the first coffee
shop.
COFFEE AND ITS ARRIVAL IN
SOUTH AMERICA
It is believed that the Dutch got in the coffee beans to South
America, too. They brought the first coffee seeds to the
current Suriname. French people did introduce the coffee
threes to Caribbean Islands, and from there it expanded to
Brazil and Colombia when turned it into one important
crops in XIX century.
CURIOSITIES
ABOUT
COFFEE
Around XV century,
when its expansion
started through Arab
world beginning at
Yemen, an intense
discussion began because
of its energy and exciting
effects
CURIOSITIES
ABOUT
COFFEE

The coffee word is

derived from Qahwa that
mean: exciting, energetic
and vigorous.
THE COFFEE IN COLOMBIA
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The arrival to Colombia for the coffee is no dated
exactly, but the most accepted theory is than Jesuit
priests did brought the seeds from Venezuela to
Colombia into Santander’s departments
 GENERALITIES
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The coffee growers departments are:
Nariño, Norte de Santander, Antioquia, Valle del
Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Cauca, Tolima, Caldas,
Quindío y Risaralda,the last four know as the Coffee
Shaft.
 ECONOMICS STATISTICS
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Colombia is the top world producer of the full washed
process coffee and that process give to Colombia’s
coffee the title of “Softest coffee of the world”. In 2018
did produced 13,6 millions of sacs and exported
3.626.000 sacks.
 COFFE’S LANDSCAPE
Considered by UNESCO as World Cultural Heritage,
for its conditions of: location, terroir, terrain, weather
and soils, this region presents a lot of interest places
and strategic biomes for the conservation of biological
diversity.
 JUAN VALDEZ CHARACTER
This is an icon for the coffee producers, growers and all
Colombian Coffee. Juan Valdez is a character designed
for Doyle Dane Bembach Agency (DDB) in 1959 as a
behalf of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of
Colombia (FNC in Spanish)