Coffee History

Before the third decade of XIX century the Costa Ricans had been searching for different ways to obtain an export product that would generate wealth. With the coffee Costa Rica connected permanently with the global market, managing to acquire an important place as it only competed with excellent quality coffee.

This has allowed to identify how the Costa Rican demand for different qualities of coffee has been in function of the cultural tradition of consumers of this beverage, who throughout the years have been able to taste a cup of quality coffee and so appreciate its intrinsic properties. This in turn has also helped for companies such as Tres Generaciones to know and analyze whether the internal market has the potential for high quality coffee in virtue of a search for specializing in gourmet coffee.

The repercussion that coffee has had in the Costa Rican market motivates you to get to know its origin. So for instance, of the Arabiga coffee, a drink that is thousands of years old, there is information from the first centuries of the Christian era. In the V century the Persians and Arabs took it to Arabia and Yemen, to later introduce it to Europe in the year 1600. By the year 1723 coffee arrives in America when the first plants were brought to island of Martinique.

History of coffee in Costa Rica

It arrived in Central America in 1740, first in El Salvador first in the year 1740 and reaching Costa Rica last in 1796. Chile became the export first destination for Costa Rican coffee in 1832 and it was bought by European dealers who then re-exported it to London under the name “Chilean Coffee from Valparaiso”.

The knowledge of the history of coffee in Costa Rica leads us to place the importance and significance that this product has had in the national economy by becoming one of the main products of the foundation of our country’s economy.

The preference for the quality of Costa Rican coffee opened doors of different foreign markets for the national products. This has marked the difference in the marketing of this product on a worldwide scale, which became a great advantage for Tres Generaciones S.A. because it has allowed it to establish its goal market in the United States and Canada.

Since the beginning of our history, growing coffee has benefited Costa Rica in its economic, social and cultural development.