High-Quality Coffee on the Go: Businesses Winning Over La Paz’s Palate | Café de calidad al paso: los negocios que conquistan el paladar del paceño

By Vision 360: To Enjoy Without Slowing Down Located in high-traffic pedestrian and vehicle areas, these businesses offer beverages made with beans grown and roasted in Bolivia, ready to be enjoyed on the daily commute. Keriquito Combines Flavor with Eco-Friendly Aesthetics – PHOTO: Jorge Soruco / Visión 360 On Ballivián Avenue in the South Zone and…

Bolivia has coffee grown at high altitude, no doubt!

El Diario reports: In La Paz airport: Manufacturers offer Café de Altura [Coffee grown at high altitude] Producers of La Paz on Monday [10/27/2014] inaugurated the first service of Café Altura [high altitude coffee] at the International Airport of El Alto in order to provide domestic and foreign visitors the best organic and quality product….

Bolivian coffee production 101

An interesting article written by Alejandra Sanjines in Los Tiempos: The Bolivian coffee production The production and export of coffee in our country is a topic that deserves attention because it is one of the main generic products that are traded on the world market, whose production is usually done in tropical zones. Currently more…

TIME reports: Bolivian Coca Farmers Switch to Coffee Beans

This is from TIME, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky reporting: For millennia, farmers in Bolivia’s breathtaking Yungas Valley terraced their steep mountainsides for coca. They grew just enough of the leaf, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of South America’s Andes region, to make tea and chew to combat high-altitude exhaustion. That changed in the 20th century,…