Coca is grown in a place.
Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae , native to western South America . The plant is grown as a cash crop in Argentina , Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador , and Peru , even in areas where its cultivation is unlawful . There are some reports that the plant is being cultivated in the south of Mexico as a cash crop and an alternative to smuggling its recreational product cocaine . Coca has been cultivated in medium-altitude parts of the Bolivian Andes since at least the Inca era , primarily in the Yungas north and east of La Paz .