Coffee production in Guatemala
![The Las Merceditas coffee plantation, San Rafael Pie de la Cuesta, Guatemala.](/Images/godic/202412/20/Las_Merceditas_183410.jpg")
![Indigenous workers on a coffee plantation, 1875.](/Images/godic/202412/20/Temporerascafe18753410.jpg")
![Coffee beans being sorted, Guatemala.](/Images/godic/202412/20/Coffee_beans_being_sorted_and_pulped3410.jpg")
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Coffee production in Guatemala began to develop in the 1850s. Coffee is an important element of Guatemala's economy.
Guatemala was Central America's top producer of coffee for most of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, until being overtaken by Honduras in 2011. Illegal exports to Honduras and Mexico are not reflected in official statistics.