IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Seboruco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018PR153004
  • User Pedon ID: S2018PR153004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N2030
  • User Project ID: GUAN_004_NEON
  • Project Name: Guanica Forest
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 17.9690920
  • Std. Longitude: -66.8528510
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR153—Yauco
  • MLRA: 271—Semiarid Mountains and Valleys
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR787—San German Area, Southwestern Puerto Rico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: TPR0057—Punta Verraco, Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sameul Rios
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Typic Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Seboruco
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, isohyperthermic Typic Calciargids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2018
  • Classifier - ASR
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: karst
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: karst
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent slight weathered limestone, unspecified at 23cm
  • Geology: Ponce Limestone formation of the Tpo group.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 255- to 590-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 15.00 percent nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 80- to 200-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - GUAN_004
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 72
  • Plot Baseline Length - 2
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Samuel Rios

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MMR, ASR
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other shrub cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    23 -

    —
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—11

    11—23

    23—

    —11—

    —12—

    —-
    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

    30

    —

    —

    135.3

    —

    215

    794

    —

    365

    26.2

    27.5

    24.6

    27.9

    29.2

    26.3

    —

    —

    2067

    Bosque Seco Station

    NRCS-NWCC-SCAN
    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) broken face, very dusky red (5R 2.5/3) broken face, moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; loose, loose, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots throughout and few very coarse roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; many very fine interstitial pores; 23 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06133; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—11 to 23 centimeters (4.3 to 9.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/4) broken face, dusky red (10R 3/3) broken face, moist; very gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common medium roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; many very fine interstitial and few fine tubular pores; 2 percent distinct very dusky red (5R 2.5/3) clay films on rock fragments and 2 percent distinct very dusky red (5R 2.5/3) clay films on surfaces along root channels; 58 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06134; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R—23 to 100 centimeters (9.1 to 39.4 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small