Soil Data Explorer - PUERTECITO

Official Series Description

Lab Data Summary

Aggregate lab data for the PUERTECITO soil series. This aggregation is based on all pedons with a current taxon name of PUERTECITO, and applied along 1-cm thick depth slices. Solid lines are the slice-wise median, bounded on either side by the interval defined by the slice-wise 5th and 95th percentiles. The median is the value that splits the data in half. Five percent of the data are less than the 5th percentile, and five percent of the data are greater than the 95th percentile. Values along the right hand side y-axis describe the proportion of pedon data that contribute to aggregate values at this depth. For example, a value of "90%" at 25cm means that 90% of the pedons correlated to PUERTECITO were used in the calculation. Source: KSSL snapshot (updated 2020-03-13). Methods used to assemble the KSSL snapshot used by SoilWeb / SDE

There are insufficient data to create the lab data summary figure.

Water Balance

Monthly water balance estimated using a leaky-bucket style model for the PUERTECITO soil series. Monthly precipitation (PPT) and potential evapotranspiration (PET) have been estimated from the 50th percentile of gridded values (PRISM 1981-2010) overlapping with the extent of SSURGO map units containing each series as a major component. Monthly PET values were estimated using the method of Thornthwaite (1948). These (and other) climatic parameters are calculated with each SSURGO refresh and provided by the fetchOSD function of the soilDB package. Representative water storage values (“AWC” in the figures) were derived from SSURGO by taking the 50th percentile of profile-total water storage (sum[awc_r * horizon thickness]) for each soil series. Note that this representation of “water storage” is based on the average ability of most plants to extract soil water between 15 bar (“permanent wilting point”) and 1/3 bar (“field capacity”) matric potential. Soil moisture state can be roughly interpreted as “dry” when storage is depleted, “moist” when storage is between 0mm and AWC, and “wet” when there is a surplus. Clearly there are a lot of assumptions baked into this kind of monthly water balance. This is still a work in progress.

Sibling Summary

Siblings are those soil series that occur together in map units, in this case with the PUERTECITO series. Sketches are arranged according to their subgroup-level taxonomic structure. Source: SSURGO snapshot (updated 2024-02-21), parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the PUERTECITO series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the PUERTECITO series and siblings. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Small Shannon entropy values suggest relatively consistent geomorphic association, while larger values suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

Competing Series

Soil series competing with PUERTECITO share the same family level classification in Soil Taxonomy. Source: parsed OSD records (updated 2023-10-02) and snapshot of the SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Select annual climate data summaries for the PUERTECITO series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of median values. Source: SSURGO map unit geometry and 1981-2010, 800m PRISM data (updated 2023-10-09).

Geomorphic description summaries for the PUERTECITO series and competing. Series are sorted according to hierarchical clustering of proportions and relative hydrologic position within an idealized landform (e.g. top to bottom). Proportions can be interpreted as an aggregate representation of geomorphic membership. Most soil series (SSURGO components) are associated with a hillslope position and one or more landform-specific positions: hills, mountain slopes, terraces, and/or flats. The values printed to the left (number of component records) and right (Shannon entropy) of stacked bars can be used to judge the reliability of trends. Shannon entropy values close to 0 represent soil series with relatively consistent geomorphic association, while values close to 1 suggest lack thereof. Source: SSURGO component records (updated 2023-10-04).

There are insufficient data to create the 3D terrace figure.

There are insufficient data to create the 3D flats position figure.

Soil series sharing subgroup-level classification with PUERTECITO, arranged according to family differentiae. Hovering over a series name will print full classification and a small sketch from the OSD. Source: snapshot of SC database (updated 2023-10-02).

Block Diagrams

Click a link below to display the diagram. Note that these diagrams may be from multiple survey areas.

1. AZ-2011-05-27-20 | Hualapai-Havasupai Area - 1999

   Typical pattern of soils and parent material in the Winona-Curhollow-Puertecito general soil map unit (Soil Survey of Hualapai-Havasupai Area, Arizona; 1999).

Map Units

Map units containing PUERTECITO as a major component. Limited to 250 records.

Map Unit Name	Symbol	Map Unit Area (ac)	Map Unit Key	National Map Unit Symbol	Soil Survey Area	Publication Date	Map Scale
Curhollow-Puertecito complex, 1 to 9 percent slopes	307	7671	3381248	2zmy7	az631	1980	1:24000
Curhollow-Puertecito complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes	7	40950	54510	1tqd	az699	1993	1:24000
Curhollow-Puertecito-Mellenthin families complex, 2 to 25 percent slopes	30	27401	615917	nnx9	az701	2001	1:24000
Puertecito family, 2 to 8 percent slopes	97	5674	615988	nnzl	az701	2001	1:24000
Puertecito-Meriwhitica-Progresso families complex, 2 to 8 percent slopes	99	4264	615990	nnzn	az701	2001	1:24000
Chilton-Teesto-Puertecito families complex, 15 to 55 percent slopes	21	3360	615814	nnsz	az701	2001	1:24000
Puertecito family, 15 to 35 percent slopes	98	2945	615989	nnzm	az701	2001	1:24000
Curhollow-Puertecito complex, 1 to 12 percent slopes	29	826	615916	nnx8	az701	2001	1:24000
Puertecito very cobbly loam, 15 to 35 percent slopes	40	1438	2506864	2rqrj	az707	2011	1:24000
Puertecito-Rock outcrop complex, 5 to 55 percent slopes	403	69352	57099	1xdx	nm664	1984	1:24000
Puertecito, moist-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes	765	13614	57186	1xhq	nm664	1984	1:24000
Puertecito-Paraje complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes	505	7851	622220	nwgm	nm687	2008	1:24000
Puertecito-Wandurn-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes	509	5808	622217	nwgj	nm687	2008	1:24000
Villario-Puertecito complex, 25 to 45 percent slopes	619	4239	766471	tqkw	nm687	2008	1:24000
Puertecito extremely gravelly fine sandy loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes	517	2452	622226	nwgt	nm687	2008	1:24000
Bullpen-Daklos-Puertecito complex, 2 to 25 percent slopes	15	332	2507455	2q70r	ut685	1990	1:24000

Map of Series Extent

Approximate geographic distribution of the PUERTECITO soil series. To learn more about how this distribution was mapped, or to compare this soil series extent to others, use the Series Extent Explorer (SEE) application. Source: generalization of SSURGO geometry (updated 2023-10-04).