Ethiopian coffee by region

Ethiopian coffee by region

Every region makes a different cup. Tap the map and discover where your coffee comes from.

WollegaIllubaborJimmaLimuKaffaBench ShekoSidamaWest ArsiBaleYirgacheffeGujiHarar

Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee and the most diverse coffee country in the world. But “Ethiopian coffee” is not one flavour: every region, every community and every process makes a different cup.

Tap the map to discover where each coffee comes from, how it is grown and what it tastes like.

Gedeo · South Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Yirgacheffe is a small district in the Gedeo zone of southern Ethiopia, and also the name under which almost all the coffee from that zone is... Open the guide → Sidama Region Sidama Sidama is the great coffee region of southern Ethiopia and, under the name “Sidamo”, one of the best-known origins in the world. It stretches from the... Open the guide → Guji Zone · Oromia Guji Guji is a heavily forested zone in southern Ethiopia, in the state of Oromia, and one of the origins that has grown the most in specialty... Open the guide → West Arsi · Oromia West Arsi West Arsi is Sidama’s eastern neighbour, already in the state of Oromia. For years its coffee was sold as “Sidamo”, which is why it is little... Open the guide → Bale Zone · Oromia Bale On the southern slope of the Bale Mountains lies the Harenna forest, one of Ethiopia’s great forests. There coffee grows wild, as just another shrub of... Open the guide → Jimma Zone · Oromia Limu Limu is one of the most confusing names in Ethiopian coffee. It is two districts of the Jimma zone, in the south-west of the country, and... Open the guide → Jimma Zone · Oromia Jimma Jimma is one of Ethiopia’s great coffee zones, in the wet, forested south-west of the country. It was once a kingdom and today it is the... Open the guide → South West Ethiopia Kaffa Kaffa is the land of the cloud forests of south-west Ethiopia and one of the places where arabica coffee still grows wild. Since 2010 it has... Open the guide → South West Ethiopia Bench Sheko Bench Sheko, formerly known as Bench Maji, is a wet, green zone in the far south-west of Ethiopia. It is the land of the country’s large... Open the guide → Oromia Illubabor Illubabor is a wet, forested zone of western Oromia with a lot of coffee. Its name is less familiar than others, but it lies behind many... Open the guide → Oromia Wollega Wollega is the great historic region of western Ethiopia and one of the origins that produces the most coffee, even if it is among the least... Open the guide → Hararghe · Oromia Harar Harar is the great origin of eastern Ethiopia and one of the oldest names in coffee. It is drier and lower than the south, and its... Open the guide →

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