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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- 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 synthesis — ChocolateHQ(citation identity confirmed; passage not re-read)