Inventario cartográfico de suelo referente a la parte alta de la provincia de El Oro

Abstract

The soil is one of the resources with which we have the greatest daily interaction, either directly or indirectly, being important for the development of the human being. The problem stems from the management of activities in the territory, given that they have been implemented in areas whose land use capacity is limited or not suitable for such action, resulting in different social, environmental and economic problems, for which it is It is important to keep in mind the taxonomic classification of soils in the territory, establishing it as a point to consider for future planning and development. The study area of this research is located in the cantons. Chilla, Balsas, Piñas, Las Lajas, Marcabelí, Atahualpa, Portovelo and Zaruma, in the province of El Oro, an area in which a taxonomic cartographic inventory of the types of soil, taking into consideration the division exposed by the United States Department of Agriculture, in the different cantons belonging to the upper part of El Oro, through the use of tools within a geographic information system ArcGIS and the compilation of geopedological information from Ecuador in metadata, from the IEE Viewer belonging to the Military Geographic Institute. The use of the GIS would give us the result of obtaining the types of soils orders that are found in each territory, as well as their territorial extension has. and percentage that they occupy within the cantons.