- Catalogue altitude
- 700–1,600 m · 28 of 45 catalogue coffees report altitude. This sample does not establish the full growing range.
- Climate
- Well-defined seasons with cold dry winters and hot rainy summers
- Terrain
- Highly diverse relief; 4% flat, 80% undulating, 16% mountainous; includes rocky outcrops of mountain massifs
- Soil
- Soil suitable for coffee cultivation and other agriculture
- Varieties
- Yellow Catuaí · Yellow Catucai · Catuaí · Bourbon
- Base process
- Natural · Washed · Honey
- Conditions and additional steps
- Anaerobic (sealed, no oxygen)
Coffee industry transformed Varginha into major export center; second largest coffee trading center in the world after Santos