Countries

Cacao-producing countries in the index.

53 countries, 249 origins. Each country page collects its origins with a short overview.

Asia & Pacific Australia 1 origin A young origin near cacao's southern climatic limit Americas Belize 4 origins Smallholder Maya cacao and relic Criollo landraces Americas Bolivia 6 origins Organic cooperative cacao and rare wild Amazonian stands Americas Brazil 8 origins Bahia's historic cacao belt and a growing Amazon frontier Africa Cameroon 5 origins Central Africa's reddish-bean producer, often fire-dried Americas Colombia 10 origins Andean and Caribbean smallholder cacao, much of it post-conflict Americas Costa Rica 3 origins Indigenous-rooted smallholder cacao and agroforestry research Africa Côte d'Ivoire 9 origins The world's largest cacao origin, high-volume bulk beans Americas Cuba 2 origins Eastern smallholder cacao centred on Baracoa Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo 3 origins Emerging organic origin of the eastern highlands Asia & Pacific Dominica 1 origin Eastern Caribbean island cacao with heritage estate cultivation Americas Dominican Republic 8 origins The Caribbean's organic-cacao powerhouse, fermented and unfermented Americas Ecuador 13 origins World's leading fine-flavour origin, from Nacional to CCN-51 Asia & Pacific El Salvador 1 origin A small Central American origin returning to fine cacao Asia & Pacific Equatorial Guinea 1 origin A collapsed plantation island once central to West African cacao Asia & Pacific Fiji 1 origin A revived island origin centred on Vanua Levu Asia & Pacific Gabon 1 origin A 1970s cocoa sector displaced by oil, now under revival Africa Ghana 7 origins The classic bulk West African Amelonado, rigorously graded Americas Grenada 2 origins Small volcanic island estates with a tree-to-bar tradition Americas Guatemala 6 origins Maya-farmed agroforestry cacao across humid lowlands Africa Guinea 1 origin Minor producer of the forested southeast Americas Haiti 4 origins Smallholder agroforestry cacao moving toward fermented fine grades Americas Honduras 5 origins A rebuilt fine-flavour origin with Maya roots Asia & Pacific India 6 origins Smallholder shade-crop cacao under coconut and areca Asia & Pacific Indonesia 10 origins A major bulk producer turning selectively toward fine cocoa Americas Jamaica 3 origins Smallholder Trinitario shaped by central fermentaries Africa Liberia 3 origins Northern cocoa belt of ageing farms under rehabilitation Africa Madagascar 7 origins Vivid fruit-forward island cacao with rare Criollo heritage Asia & Pacific Malaysia 2 origins A former cocoa power undergoing a modest fine-flavour revival Americas Mexico 8 origins The ancestral Mesoamerican homeland of cultivated cacao Americas Nicaragua 5 origins An ICCO-recognised 100 percent fine-flavour origin Africa Nigeria 4 origins Long-established bulk producer of the southwestern states Americas Panama 3 origins Caribbean-coast cacao with deep Indigenous tradition Asia & Pacific Papua New Guinea 6 origins Melanesian smallholder cocoa, often distinctively smoky Americas Peru 13 origins Amazonian genetic diversity and a leading organic-cacao exporter Asia & Pacific Philippines 7 origins Mindanao-centred origin with a rising artisan sector Asia & Pacific Puerto Rico 1 origin Caribbean territory with revived smallholder cacao Asia & Pacific Samoa 1 origin Island cocoa tied to the koko Samoa tradition Africa São Tomé and Príncipe 7 origins The historic 'Chocolate Islands' of the Gulf of Guinea Africa Sierra Leone 2 origins Smaller Eastern Province producer rebuilding post-conflict Asia & Pacific Solomon Islands 4 origins The country's main farm export, grown across many islands Asia & Pacific Sri Lanka 3 origins Mid-country smallholder cacao intercropped with coconut Americas St. Lucia 2 origins Volcanic-slope estate cacao with named terroir plots Asia & Pacific Taiwan 1 origin Tree-to-bar island cacao grown on former betel-nut land Africa Tanzania 5 origins Berry-forward East African beans from the south Asia & Pacific Thailand 3 origins Research-bred hybrids feeding a young bean-to-bar scene Africa Togo 2 origins Small upland Plateaux producer near the Ghanaian border Americas Trinidad and Tobago 10 origins Birthplace of Trinitario and home of the ICS clones Africa Uganda 3 origins Fruit-forward East African origin from the Semuliki Valley Asia & Pacific United States 2 origins Hawaii — the only US state where cacao fruits commercially Asia & Pacific Vanuatu 3 origins Pacific smallholder cocoa with a traditional smoky signature Americas Venezuela 14 origins Historic heartland of fine-flavour Criollo and Trinitario cacao Asia & Pacific Vietnam 7 origins A fast-changing young origin of fruity southern Trinitarios