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| PACAMARA HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION |
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Pacamara is the very best tasting coffee of Central America, it is a hybrid Arábica coffee tree developed by the Salvadorean Coffee Research Institute(ISIC) in the late 1950's.This very special and rare coffee is a crossing of the famous "Maragogype" Arábica and "Pacas", a Salvadorean high yielding mutation of the Arábica hibryd"San Ramón Bourbon" discovered in 1956 by two of the most prominent producer of El Salvador, Don Alberto Pacas and Don Francisco De Sola with the help of Dr. William Cogwill of the University of Florida. It was around the 1930's that Don Alberto Pacas Figueroa started of diferent varieties of coffee trees selecting from his farm the seeds from the highest yielding trees. He had in his garden Maragogype, San Ramón Bourbon, Arábico and Robusta. Hearing that some varieties in Don Alberto's garden where yielding 80 to 100 quintales per manzana, Don Francisco De Sola visited the coffee garden |
in 1956 and he made several observations on the Arábica hybrid named"San Ramón Bourbon;he was so impressed by this tree that he called Dr. William Cogwill from the University of Florida and invited him to come see the coffee trees in the Pacas garden. After his visit and posterior research, Dr. Cogwill concluded that the new high yielding coffee plants were a mutation from the arábica hybrid San Ramón Bourbon and Don Francisco De Sola named it:"Variedad Pacas". The new high yielding variety became very popular among Salvadorean coffee producers and was spread in many countries in Latin America, Africa and the Philipines. Later, Around 1957/1958 when El Salvador was one of the five largest coffee producers in the world and the Salvadorian Coffee Research Institute(ISIC)was a world class pioneer in agronomic coffee research, Dr. Jaime |