What is the Pacas coffee varietal?

Pacas is a natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon, first identified on the Pacas family's farm in El Salvador in 1949. Like Caturra and Villa Sarchi, the dwarf stature makes it more suitable for high-density planting and easier to harvest than the tall Bourbon parent.

Well-adapted to El Salvador's growing conditions, Pacas produces cup quality in line with the Bourbon family: clean, sweet, well-structured. It's a solid specialty variety that performs reliably at the country's altitudes.

Its most significant contribution to the broader varietal landscape is as a parent of Pacamara - El Salvador's most celebrated hybrid, created by crossing Pacas with Maragogype. Pacas itself appears occasionally as a named single-variety offering, but it's the Pacamara cross that has made the Pacas name internationally known.