IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Humatas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961PR097001
  • User Pedon ID: S1961PR097001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961PR097001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0571
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 33099
  • Print Date: 4/22/2025

    • 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: 18.1663895
  • Std. Longitude: -67.0783310
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oeste Soil Conservation District, Puerto Rico, 300 meters beyond kilometer marker 5.4, Highway 349, on dirt road, 200 meters east of Rosario School. Photo GS-LR-11-46.
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR684—Mayaguez Area, Puerto Rico Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. E. McKinzie
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alonso
  • PSC - 12 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2001
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Humatas
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/18/1961 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    COFFE

    Coffea

    coffee

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    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

    55

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine pores; 21 percent fine worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04177. Fails semiplastically.
    Bt1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04178. Fails semiplastically.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195302; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195302
    Bt2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; pressure faces and clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A04179. Fails semiplastically.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195304; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195304
    BC1—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04180. Fails abruptly.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195305; patchy - phpvsfiid 1195305
    BC2—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A04181. few vertical clay lenses; small amount of saprolite; fails abruptly.
    C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); red (10R 4/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and very pale brown (10YR 8/4) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A04182. Fails abruptly.