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No worries. You'll notice that my profile just says "Ecuador" - it's a big little country, and I'm not saying where in it I am at any given time; this is largely because I work with endangered hardwoods which are vulnerable to poaching. If you're in Central America, the dominant tree types are pretty much the same as mine here at the equator.

You sure could do gourmet/specialty food crops, but check with your country's Ministerio del Ambiente and Ministerio de Agricultura about export licencing first to see if it's feasable and for which crops. If it were me, I'd also put in some of the cash-crop hardwoods (teak, ahuano, cedron, palo santo, canelo negro, and balsa).

I'd also plant the medicinal trees - Sangre de Drago, Canela/Cassia, Senna, Sanguarachi, etc. etc.

At your elevation, the food crops that will grow well and be good for export include Pitahaya, all varieties of banana but especially "exotics" for the Western market, (that's Reds, Baby bananas, Gros Michel; basically anything except Cavendish or Gran Nain) Tamarillo (which may be called Tomate de Arbol locally), Passionfruits (especially Maracuya, Granadilla, and the banana-types like Taxo), Papaya, White pineapple, Citrus of all types, and possibly Soursop/Guayabana. You should also be able to grow Jackfruit, Breadfruit, Achiote, Rambutan, and Mombin; the latter is a local cash crop and doesn't usually get exported. The one thing you shouldn't grow is coffee - at such a low altitude the flavour will be inferiour to highland types.

If you're interested in permaculture methods for these things, let me know. It's one of my specialties.