What Is a Carla Avocado? DR Winter Green-Skin Variety | DS

By Arturo Peguero | International Trade Specialist | Former Dirección de Comercio Exterior | Former International Trade Professor

Last updated: June 2026

Quick Answer: Carla is the largest Caribbean green-skin avocado from the Dominican Republic, with smooth green skin and creamy low-fiber flesh. It runs roughly October through February, the winter window, carrying the green-skin program through the months when Mexican Hass softens. It is a distinct category, not a Hass substitute.

What Is a Carla Avocado?

Carla is a Caribbean green-skin avocado variety grown in the Dominican Republic, and the largest of the country’s three principal green-skin varieties. It has smooth green skin and creamy, low-fiber flesh. Like Pollock and Semil 34, it is a category distinct from Hass, not a substitute for it, and is offered on its own terms as a green-skin avocado.

What sets Carla apart within the green-skin family is its timing and its size. It is the winter variety, and it is the biggest fruit of the three, which makes it a visible, differentiated retail offer in the colder months.

Carla Season and the Winter-Gap Case

Dominican Republic Carla runs roughly October through February. It is the late, winter-window variety: after Pollock (July through October) opens the green-skin window and Semil 34 (August through December) anchors its long middle, Carla carries the program through winter. Together the three give the Dominican Republic a green-skin avocado window covering July through February.

The sourcing case is the winter gap. Carla’s October-through-February window covers the period when Mexican Hass supply softens, so a retail program wanting a Caribbean green-skin option through the colder months has one. It enters the US at 0% duty under CAFTA-DR on the roughly 4-day Port Everglades sea lane. Carla also overlaps the Dominican Hass season but sits in a separate varietal category, so the two are not interchangeable on a program.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Carla avocado? Carla is the largest of the Dominican Republic’s Caribbean green-skin avocado varieties. It has smooth green skin and creamy, low-fiber flesh. It is distinct from Hass and sits in its own varietal category, used by retail programs that want a Caribbean green-skin option through the winter.

When is Carla avocado in season? Dominican Republic Carla runs roughly October through February. It is the late, winter-window variety, carrying the Caribbean green-skin window through the colder months after Pollock and Semil 34 wind down.

Why source Carla avocado in winter? Carla’s October-February window covers the period when Mexican Hass supply softens. For a retail program wanting a Caribbean green-skin option through the winter gap, Carla provides one, in a distinct varietal category, on the duty-free CAFTA-DR lane.

Related Terms

• Pollock avocado: the variety that opens the green-skin window
• Semil 34 avocado: the longest-window green-skin variety
• CAFTA-DR: gives Dominican avocado 0% US duty

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About the author: Arturo Peguero is the founder of DominicanSources, former official at the Dirección de Comercio Exterior and International Trade Professor at PUCMM with 20+ years in Dominican trade.