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For years the good beans were exported and the street tinto was made from what was left. That has changed. Twelve places, ordered by review count rather than by score.

The best coffee scene in Colombia, and not because the beans are better – they come from the same regions. The city simply has enough remote workers and local obsessives to keep serious roasters alive.

Cartagena has a problem visitors work out too late: inside the walled city, coffee is priced by the square metre, not by the cup. You are paying for the terrace and the flowered balcony. Some…

Salento and Filandia sit 25 kilometres apart in Colombia’s Quindío department, and between them they hold more coffee shops per resident than anywhere else in the country. They also hold more tourist traps: along Salento’s…