IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Daguey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961PR093002
  • User Pedon ID: S1961PR093002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0580
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33658
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 18.1819439
  • Std. Longitude: -66.8716660
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oeste Soil Conservation District, Puerto Rico, 2.45 kilometers on dirt road from kilometer marker 19.4, on Highway 105, Maricao to Larea, 50 feet east of road. Photo GS-LR-3-208.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • MLRA: 270—Humid Mountains and Valleys
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR684—Mayaguez Area, Puerto Rico Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. H. Rivera
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic Inceptic Hapludox
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Daguey
  • PSC - 6 to 26 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/19/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    35

    —

    —

    —

    —

    90

    2019

    —

    365

    31.6

    32.6

    30.3

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    —

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    666083

    Mayaguez Airport, Puerto Rico

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    O2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A04243. Partially decomposed leaf mulch.
    AP—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04244
    B21T—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04245. Fails semiplastically.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519898; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519898
    B22T—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04246. Fails semiplastically.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519899; patchy - phpvsfiid 1519899
    B23T—69 to 104 centimeters (27.2 to 40.9 inches); red (10R 4/8) clay; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04247. Fails semiplastically.
    B3—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) clay; massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; 1 percent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04248. Fails abruptly.
    C1—135 to 163 centimeters (53.1 to 64.2 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) rubbed silty clay loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A04249. Fails abruptly; no roots.