The United Mexican States have 18 Designations of Origin (DO, Denominación de Origen in Spanish), granted by the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), which also issues declarations to protect the product, register the brand and authorize its use. However, these names are not created by the IMPI, but rather "exist because of factual situations; that is, they are first used, famous and recognized by the public that consumes them, and later, they are protected through the corresponding declaration". ^[1]

The first denomination of origin declared in Mexico was tequila in 1974 (DO enjoyed by 181 municipalities distributed between Jalisco, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Nayarit and Guanajuato), while the last was the Pluma coffee in 2020 (30 municipalities in Oaxaca). ^[2]

List

Image	Product	Year	Place
Food
	Veracruz coffee [ es]	2000 [3]	82 municipalities in Veracruz
	Chiapas coffee [ es]	2003 [4]	77 municipalities in Chiapas
	Ataúlfo mango	2003 [5]	13 municipalities in Soconusco region, Chiapas
	Papantla vanilla [ es]	2009 [6]	19 municipalities in Veracruz 19 municipalities in Puebla (total of 38)
	Yucatan habanero chilli pepper [ es]	2008 [7]	All the municipalities that make up the State of Yucatán (106)
	Morelos Rice [ es]	2012 [8]	22 municipalities in Morelos
	Grijalva cocoa [ es]	2016 [9]	11 municipalities in Tabasco
	Yahualica chilli pepper [ es]	2000 [10]	9 municipalities in Jalisco 2 municipalities in Zacatecas
Drinks
	Bacanora	1969 [11]	35 municipalities in Sonora
	Tequila	1969 [12]	125 municipalities in Jalisco 30 municipalities in Michoacán 11 municipalities in Tamaulipas 8 municipalities in Nayarit 7 municipalities in Guanajuato (total of 181)
	Mezcal	1994 [13] 2001 [14] 2003 [14] 2012 [14] 2015 [15] 2018 [16] [17] [18]	Aguascalientes (7 municipalities), Durango (39 m.), Guanajuato (2 m.), Guerrero (81 m.), State of México (15 m.), Michoacán (29 m.), Morelos (23 m.), Oaxaca (570 m.), Puebla (116 m.), San Luis Potosí (58 m.), Tamaulipas (11 m.), Zacatecas (58 m.) (total of 1009)
	Sotol	2002 [19]	All the municipalities that make up Chihuahua (67), Coahuila (38) and Durango (39)
	Charanda	2003 [20]	16 municipalities in Michoacán
	Raicilla	2019 [21]	16 municipalities in Jalisco 1 municipality in Nayarit
Artesanías
	Olinalá lacquerware	1994 [22]	Olinalá, Guerrero
	Talavera pottery	1997 [23]	5 municipalities in Puebla
	Chiapan amber	2000 [24] 2003 [25]	7 municipalities in Chiapas

References