Gedeo Zone

Catalogue altitude

100 m · 1 of 1 catalogue coffees report altitude. Very small sample. This sample does not establish the full growing range.

Terrain

A narrow exclave strip along the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian Highlands; surrounded by the Oromia Region on the east, south and west, and borders Sidama Region to the north

Varieties

74110 · 74112

Coffee is central to the zone's economy: farmers produced over 359.2 million Birr worth of coffee in the year to July 2009, and the Gedeo Cultural Landscape (the traditional coffee agroforestry system) was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023