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Recognized so by UNESCO in 2011 thanks to its magic and beauty

  • As part of the celebration, inviting residents and visitors to enjoy this unique landscape, a series of activities will be carried out under the slogan ‘The magic is living it.’
  • A landscape where the joy of its people, the charm of its towns and farms, its cultural wealth, the imposing nature, heritage and production of the best coffee in the world come together to make up a magical land.
  • A pride of Colombia and the world, the Coffee Cultural Landscape is made up of six areas of the departments of Caldas, Quindío, Risaralda and Valle del Cauca that encompass 51 coffee municipalities.

Bogotá, June 25, 2021 – With quality of its coffee, imposing nature, typical architecture, magic, color, traditions and exceptional culture, the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (PCCC, the acronym in Spanish) today celebrates 10 years of having been declared a World Heritage Site.

Amidst green mountains, walking the cobbled streets of some of its towns, with houses of colorful balconies, doors and windows, or having a drink on a farm surrounded by coffee plantations are unique experiences, enriched even more by its people’s warmth, music, dance, dress, traditional cuisine, “chivas” and “yipaos.”

For all these reasons, combining natural, economic and cultural elements with a high degree of homogeneity, on June 25, 2011 the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) registered the PCCC in the World Heritage list.

Coffee and coffee growers are the essence of the PCCC. In this beautiful and important region of the country, there are over 79,000 coffee farmers on 95,503 farms and 172,000 hectares planted with coffee.

The PCCC thus became the only living and productive coffee cultural landscape in the world. “It is an outstanding example of human adaptation to difficult geographical conditions over which a hillside and mountain coffee farming developed, an exceptional case in the world,” said the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) CEO, Roberto Vélez.

“It is a unique region full of beautiful people, and thanks to this recognition today the FNC is articulated with the Ministry of Culture, universities, regional environmental authorities, governments, chambers of commerce and departmental coffee grower committees so that residents and visitors admire it and over all live it, so that tourists always want to come back,” he added.