Soil great group

Endoacuent

Of the Acuent suborder; it saturates from below: by a close water table.

What the name says

Soil Taxonomy names are built from parts, and each part says something about the soil. From general to specific:

Taxonomic orderEntisolSoil without diagnostic horizons, or almost: recently deposited material (sand, alluvium) or on which the climate did not have time to act.
SuborderAcuentEntisol with excess water: saturated near the surface, with redox depletions.
Great groupEndoacuentWithin the Acuent suborder, it saturates from below: by a close water table.

What it means for farming

Very variable. The sandy ones (Psamentes) retain little water and blow away; alluvial ones (Fluventes) can be good but they flood; the shallow ones on rock (lithic) are barely useful for grazing.

Where it is found

It does not appear on the national map; on the detailed maps it adds up to about 143 ha, across 1 districts.

Districts where it is most common

It also appears on the detailed maps of: Corrientes.

How productive it is

Land capability

VI

class VI: 100%

Taken from the maps that include this data. A map unit with several soils has a single index, and it is only attributed to the dominant soil.

Subgroups on the maps

  • Endoacuent lítico

Soil series

Series are the specific soils, named after places, that detailed maps describe under this name. Two properties with the same series have the same soil.

Corrientes

Gonsalves

The definitions are a plain-language summary of the USDA Keys to Soil Taxonomy. The formal definition includes thickness, color and percentage thresholds that are left out here.

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