Home›Sources›Cacao Tree (Wikipedia)SourcesCacao Tree (Wikipedia)WikipediaCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextAgriculture and Farming Atlas. "Cacao Tree (Wikipedia)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/sources/cacao-wikipedia.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextAgriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Cacao Tree (Wikipedia). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/sources/cacao-wikipediaCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-cacao-tree-wikipedia, author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas}, title = {Cacao Tree (Wikipedia)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/sources/cacao-wikipedia}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingFactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (19 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsURLWell-attestedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacao_treePublisherWell-attestedWikimedia FoundationSource TypeWell-attestedEncyclopediaSourcesCacao Tree (Wikipedia)Wikimedia FoundationView the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (19 claims)This source backs 19 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicCrops, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.Sources, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.Well-attested13CropsCacaoOpen QuestionsWas cacao domesticated in a single event in Central America about 3,600 years ago, or independently earlier in the upper Amazon, at the Santa Ana-La Florida site in present-day Ecuador, at least 5,300 years ago?SourcesCacao Tree (Wikipedia)Scholarly debate2CropsCacaoHolds1CropsCacaoConnected1Open QuestionsWas cacao domesticated in a single event in Central America about 3,600 years ago, or independently earlier in the upper Amazon, at the Santa Ana-La Florida site in present-day Ecuador, at least 5,300 years ago?General References2CropsCacaoOpen QuestionsWas cacao domesticated in a single event in Central America about 3,600 years ago, or independently earlier in the upper Amazon, at the Santa Ana-La Florida site in present-day Ecuador, at least 5,300 years ago?Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year