Manabí

A cacao growing region in Ecuador.

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A coastal Ecuadorian province with a long cacao history and a drier climate than the Guayas basin to the south. It holds some of the older Nacional plantings that survived the twentieth-century disease epidemics.

Country
Ecuador
Flavour families
floral, nutty

Terroir

Coastal hills and valleys, drier than the southern lowlands, with older smallholder plantings under shade.

Flavour character

Often described as floral and nutty with light fruit and low acidity.

InferredSource: ChocolateHQ

Other regions in Ecuador

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Part of

  • EcuadorA coastal Ecuadorian province with a long cacao history and a drier climate than the Guayas basin to the south.

Varieties planted here

  • NacionalDocumented as planted in this region, though plantings within a region are rarely uniform and material is frequently mixed. Manabí — A coastal Ecuadorian province with a long cacao history and a drier climate than the Guayas basin to the south.
  • CCN-51Documented as planted in this region, though plantings within a region are rarely uniform and material is frequently mixed. Manabí — A coastal Ecuadorian province with a long cacao history and a drier climate than the Guayas basin to the south.

Sources

  • ChocolateHQ editorial synthesisChocolateHQ(citation identity confirmed; passage not re-read)