Beverage
Lempira
C tier
Lempira is a Honduran Coffea arabica cultivar selected by IHCAFE from Catimor lineages for coffee leaf rust resistance, short stature, and high yields suited to dense commercial plantings. Named for a national indigenous leader, it was released to strengthen farm resilience and productivity across Honduras’s diverse coffee regions. Flavour is generally mild, sweet, and nutty-chocolate in washed commercial lots, with clearer acidity from higher farms. Lempira is a production-focused resistant variety often grown alongside IHCAFE 90 rather than as a boutique single-variety specialty flagship.
Also known as: Lempira
Track this ingredient
Characteristics
Preparations
Traits
Grading systems
Grades are placed along a shared scale so systems can be compared side by side.
History
Catimor introductions formed the genetic base for Honduran resistant cultivar development.
IHCAFE advanced compact Catimor selections under local disease and climate pressure.
Lempira was released as a high-yielding, rust-resistant national cultivar.
Nursery programmes scaled Lempira for smallholders renovating aging Caturra plots.
Coffee leaf rust epidemics accelerated Lempira planting across western and central Honduras.
Lempira remained a core commercial variety in national production statistics.