The Soils of Ecuador

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Julio Moreno, Gustavo Bernal, José Espinosa

   Pages 1-25

3. Soil from the Coastal Plane

   • Julio Moreno, Gustavo Sevillano, Omar Valverde, Verónica Loayza, Renato Haro, Johanna Zambrano

   Pages 27-77

4. Soils from the Highlands

   • Julio Moreno, Fausto Yerovi, Mireya Herrera, Darwin Yánez, José Espinosa

   Pages 79-111

5. Soils from the Amazonia

   • Darwin Sánchez, José Merlo, Renato Haro, Mayra Acosta, Gustavo Bernal

   Pages 113-137

6. Soils from the Galapagos Islands

   • Lorena Lasso, José Espinosa

   Pages 139-150

7. Agricultural Land Use

   • José Espinosa, Julio Moreno

   Pages 151-162

8. Back Matter

   Pages 163-164

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This is the first book to comprehensively discuss Ecuadorian soils. Richly illustrated, it provides information on the unique characteristics and distribution of these soils. Due to the influence of the Andes, which vastly modified the climate and parental materials, a relative small country like Ecuador has a wide variety of soil orders, rarely found in other countries. The country is divided into three distinctive regions by the Andes: The Coastal Plain, the Andean Highlands, and the Amazonia Region each with different soil development, influenced by the varying conditions in that region.


It is also necessary to consider the Galapagos Islands as a separate region with a particular climate and parental material.

• Alluvial Planes
• Andean Highlands
• Coastal Plane
• Deposition Planes
• Soils of Ecuador
• Structural Reliefs
• Structural Reliefs
• Tropical Coastal plain

• Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

  José Espinosa

• Instituto Espacial Ecuatoriano (IEE), Quito, Ecuador

  Julio Moreno

• Asociación Nacional de Cultivadores de Palma Aceitera (ANCUPA), Quito, Ecuador

  Gustavo Bernal

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