IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aguirre
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019PR079003
  • User Pedon ID: S2019PR079003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11304
  • User Project ID: 2020-2022-maz-001
  • Project Name: LRP_MLRA 273 - 3-MAZ - Lajas Valley Soil Salinity Project
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Sample for Lalas Valley Salinity Map Project
  • Map Unit: FeA—Fe clay, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Puerto Rico
  • County: PR079—Lajas
  • MLRA: 271—Semiarid Mountains and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PR787—San German Area, Southwestern Puerto Rico

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Beverly Alvares, Pablo Castro, David Sotomayor
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, smectitic, isohyperthermic Sodic Epiaquerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aguirre (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2020
  • Classifier - ASR
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aguirre
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, smectitic, isohyperthermic Sodic Haplusterts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/13/2020
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Flats: rise
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/13/2020 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

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    —

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    794

    —

    365

    26.2

    27.5

    24.6

    27.5

    29.2

    26.1

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    Bosque Seco Station

    NRCS-NWCC SCAN
    0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); fragments.
    30 to 60 centimeters (11.8 to 23.6 inches); fragments.
    60 to 90 centimeters (23.6 to 35.4 inches); fragments.
    90 to 120 centimeters (35.4 to 47.2 inches); fragments.