MOKHA (Mocha, properly Makha)  , a town in Arabia on the Red Sea coast in 13° 19' N. and 43° 12' E . Formerly the chief port for the Yemen coffee export, it has much diminished in importance . The coffee grown in the mountain districts of Haraz, Uden, and Ta'iz is now shipped at Hodeda or Aden, though the article retains the trade name of " Mocha." The town lies in a small bay 40 M . N. of Perim at the southern entrance to the Red Sea . The anchorage is not good, and the port is only used by native vessels . Seen from the sea the town has rather an imposing appearance, but a near review shows that the houses though large and built of stone are mostly in ruins . The neighbouring country is an arid plain without fresh water, the town being supplied by an aqueduct from the village of Muza, situated 16 m. to the east . This is probably identical with the Muza of the Periplus, a great seat of the Red Sea trade in antiquity, which like Betel Fakih, Zubed and other old Tehama towns, formerly seaports, has long since been left by the receding sea . There is a Turkish kaimakam and a small garrison at Mokha, which is part of the civil district of Taiz in the vilayet of Yemen .