The sustainable agricultural development of a country depends, considerably, on the correct planning made in the use of its lands. This work was carried out in the main agro-ecological systems of coffee trees in the country, which embrace an area of 1423190 ha., and where it is produced approximately the 94% of Cuban coffee. This was the result of a multidisciplinary and multinstitutional work.

The studies of soils were carried out in 1040058 ha., representative of 73,1% of the total, for whose characterization from the chemical, physical and mineralogical point of view required of the study of more than 3600 profiles. The climatic characterization was based on the information from 14 Meteorological Stations and 587 pluviometers.

It was suggested in this work a novel methodology to define the zoning bases, starting from the information of more than 100 experimental places located in different agro-ecological conditions of the country. Several Systems of Geographical Information (SIG) were used in order to establish the relations among the considered parameters and to reach the agro-ecological zoning. This methodology can be used for similar studies in other cultivations and in other regions of the country. It is presented a group of maps to scale 1:100000, inside them, those relative to zoning, where the area occupied by each category is offered (optimum, moderately optimum, acceptable and not qualified). For each one of these categories, it is established the yield potential in gold coffee and it is recommended the use of production technology to reach the potential yield.

The results obtained in this work about agro-ecological zoning of the coffee tree have a high economic and social connotation and they are being used by the National Management of Turquino-Manati Plan in the Strategic Re-approach of Cuban Mountains. On the other hand, this result also has a great environmental impact, because the mountains constitute extremely fragile ecosystems and its implementation allows locating coffee areas in places with suitable conditions and, therefore, it contributes to preserve natural resources, from which soils is one of the most valuable. The results of the work have been presented in scientific events and published in 5 articles in scientific magazines, 1 of which is very prestigious. Due to its importance for agriculture, it has received several prizes in the country, for example, the Prize of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI) in 2002.