Home to Venezuela's highest peaks and a preserved coffee-hacienda museum documenting the trade's history.
Mérida state contains Venezuela's highest terrain (Pico Bolívar, roughly 4,970 m) down to under 200 m near Lake Maracaibo in its south. The 'La Victoria Estate: Immigrant and Coffee Museum' in Santa Cruz de Mora documents the state's historic coffee cultivation.
Field notes
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Mérida took 19 of the 35 places (54%) in the international phase of the 2024 Venezuelan specialty coffee encounter.
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A brand catalogue calls Santa Cruz de Mora the state's main coffee town, with Catuaí and Caturra picked at 1,600 m in its Mesa de Las Palmas parish.
In the cup, according to guides
- SweetnessOften notedWikipedia describes Mérida coffee as fair to good in body with an unemphatic but sweetly pleasant flavor. The line is uncited there.
Elsewhere in Venezuela
Sources · 5 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.
- Mérida (state) · Wikipedia
- Coffee production in Venezuela · Wikipedia
- Diecinueve caficultores meridenos clasificaron a fase internacional del EICEV 2024 · Diario de Los Andes
- Venezuelan Gold, product catalog (Dinaca / Cafanca) · Dinaca (Venezuelan coffee brand), listed on ConnectAmericas
- Venezuela, Finca Los Naranjos (Cariakito) · Goatsucka (roaster)