History
historical data show that the Jesuits brought with them small seeds of around 1730, but there are different versions. Tradition says that the seeds of the coffee came in the east, brought a passenger who walked away from Guyana, Venezuela travel in Colombia. The oldest written evidence of the presence of coffee in Colombia is due Jesuit priest whose Gumilla. In his book “Orinoco Illustrated” (1730), he recorded the presence of coffee to St. Therese Tabaj near the Meta River empties into the Orinoco. The second writing belongs to the Archbishop-Viceroy Caballero y Gongora (1787) recorded in the presence of the harvest in the northeastern part of the country near Giron (Santander) and Muzo (Boyaca) report which he sent to the Spanish authorities. the first coffee trees were planted in the eastern part of the country. In 1835 the first commercial production in 2560 registered Continue reading