World Species : Protected Area : Los Haitises National Park

Los Haitises National Park

Location:	Dominican Republic
IUCN Category:	II
Area:	155,690 acres (63,005 hectares)
Species:	All Endangered Invasive
Website:	View website
Climate:	View Climate Data
Land Use:	View Land Use Data
Köppen climate classification:	Af (Climate: equatorial; Precipitation: fully humid)

Ecoregions

Bahamoan-Antillean mangroves
Hispaniolan moist forests

Soils

— Protected Area Boundary

	A					B		C

Share	35 %	20 %	15 %	15 %	15 %	50 %	50 %	50 %	30 %	20 %
Soil Type	Eutric Vertisols	Calcic Chernozems	Gleyic Acrisols	Eutric Fluvisols	Umbric Gleysols	Rendzic Leptosols	Chromic Cambisols	Luvic Calcisols	Vertic Cambisols	Haplic Chernozems
Topsoil Texture	Fine	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Fine	Medium
Reference Depth	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	30 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm	100 cm
Drainage	Poor	Moderately well	Poor	Moderately well	Poor	Imperfectly	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well	Moderately well
Available Water Capacity	125 m	150 m	150 m	150 m	150 m	50 mm	150 m	150 m	150 m	150 m
Misc. Property	Vertic (cracks of more than 1 cm wide)								Vertic (cracks of more than 1 cm wide)
Topsoil Properties
Gravel	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	29 %	1 %	1 %	1 %	1 %
Sand	7 %	9 %	47 %	32 %	38 %	36 %	42 %	54 %	30 %	25 %
Silt	41 %	57 %	35 %	49 %	31 %	39 %	26 %	24 %	28 %	48 %
Clay	52 %	34 %	18 %	19 %	31 %	25 %	32 %	22 %	42 %	27 %
USDA Texture	Silty clay	Silty clay loam	Loam	Loam	Clay loam	Loam	Clay loam	Sandy clay loam	Clay	Clay loam
Reference Bulk Density	1.2 g/cm³	1.26 g/cm³	1.43 g/cm³	1.39 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.36 g/cm³	1.34 g/cm³	1.42 g/cm³	1.27 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.57 g/cm³	1.18 g/cm³	1.41 g/cm³	1.37 g/cm³	1.26 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.31 g/cm³	1.48 g/cm³	1.34 g/cm³	1.21 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	2.48 %	2.66 %	1.32 %	1.13 %	19.37 %	1.85 %	0.93 %	0.4 %	0.78 %	2.15 %
PH	7	7.9	6.2	8.3	5.2	7.7	6.7	8.1	6.9	7
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	104 cmol kg⁻¹	96 cmol kg⁻¹	12 cmol kg⁻¹	109 cmol kg⁻¹	17 cmol kg⁻¹	91 cmol kg⁻¹	33 cmol kg⁻¹	60 cmol kg⁻¹	56 cmol kg⁻¹	63 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	62 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹	7 cmol kg⁻¹	24 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹	29 cmol kg⁻¹	14 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	27 cmol kg⁻¹	24 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	100 %	100 %	80 %	100 %	20 %	100 %	90 %	100 %	92 %	100 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	62 cmol kg⁻¹	42 cmol kg⁻¹	5.6 cmol kg⁻¹	24 cmol kg⁻¹	8.4 cmol kg⁻¹	29 cmol kg⁻¹	12.6 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	24.8 cmol kg⁻¹	24 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	0.5 %	4.2 %	0 %	2.7 %	0 %	11.2 %	0.3 %	19.3 %	0.8 %	1 %
Calcium Sulphate	0.1 %	0.1 %	0 %	0.1 %	0 %	0.1 %	0.1 %	0.1 %	0.1 %	0.1 %
Exchangeable Sodium	1 %	1 %	1 %	2 %	2 %	1 %	1 %	2 %	2 %	1 %
Electrical Conductivity	0.3 dS m-1	0.3 dS m-1	0 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0 dS m-1	0.2 dS m-1	0.1 dS m-1	0.3 dS m-1	0.2 dS m-1	0.2 dS m-1
Subsoil Properties
Gravel	17 %	18 %	0 %	0 %	0 %		1 %	1 %	1 %	1 %
Sand	13 %	9 %	28 %	42 %	20 %		41 %	47 %	25 %	25 %
Silt	40 %	36 %	21 %	43 %	23 %		25 %	24 %	28 %	49 %
Clay	47 %	55 %	51 %	15 %	57 %		34 %	29 %	47 %	26 %
USDA Texture	Clay	Clay	Clay	Loam	Clay		Clay loam	Sandy clay loam	Clay	Loam
Reference Bulk Density	1.22 g/cm³	1.19 g/cm³	1.24 g/cm³	1.45 g/cm³	1.21 g/cm³		1.33 g/cm³	1.36 g/cm³	1.25 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³
Bulk Density	1.67 g/cm³	1.33 g/cm³	1.45 g/cm³	1.38 g/cm³	1.62 g/cm³		1.44 g/cm³	1.48 g/cm³	1.4 g/cm³	1.31 g/cm³
Organic Carbon	0.53 %	1.19 %	0.33 %	0.59 %	4.04 %		0.38 %	0.2 %	0.41 %	0.96 %
PH	7.9	8.2	5.9	8.3	5.8		6.9	8.3	7.4	7.5
Clay Cation Exchange Capacity	94 cmol kg⁻¹	58 cmol kg⁻¹	19 cmol kg⁻¹	131 cmol kg⁻¹	55 cmol kg⁻¹		38 cmol kg⁻¹	52 cmol kg⁻¹	56 cmol kg⁻¹	60 cmol kg⁻¹
Soil Cation Exchange Capacity	45 cmol kg⁻¹	34 cmol kg⁻¹	13 cmol kg⁻¹	21 cmol kg⁻¹	41 cmol kg⁻¹		14 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	28 cmol kg⁻¹	19 cmol kg⁻¹
Base Saturation	100 %	100 %	43 %	100 %	50 %		97 %	100 %	99 %	100 %
Total Exchangeable Bases	45 cmol kg⁻¹	34 cmol kg⁻¹	5.6 cmol kg⁻¹	21 cmol kg⁻¹	20.5 cmol kg⁻¹		13.6 cmol kg⁻¹	15 cmol kg⁻¹	27.7 cmol kg⁻¹	19 cmol kg⁻¹
Calcium Carbonate	2.4 %	13.4 %	0 %	3 %	0 %		0.4 %	25.4 %	2 %	1.8 %
Calcium Sulphate	0.1 %	0.1 %	0 %	0.1 %	0 %		0.1 %	0.1 %	0.1 %	0.1 %
Exchangeable Sodium	2 %	2 %	2 %	2 %	2 %		1 %	2 %	2 %	2 %
Electrical Conductivity	0.3 dS m-1	0.4 dS m-1	0 dS m-1	0.2 dS m-1	0 dS m-1		0.1 dS m-1	0.3 dS m-1	0.3 dS m-1	0.2 dS m-1

Soil data provided by FAO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC, 2012. Harmonized World Soil Database (version 1.2). FAO, Rome, Italy and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.

Köppen climate classification provided by Kottek, M., J. Grieser, C. Beck, B. Rudolf, and F. Rubel, 2006: World Map of Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification updated. Meteorol. Z., 15, 259-263