page_title: Soil in Kilte Awula'ilo
section_title: Atsaf and Menda’i plains
hierarchical_section_title: Soil in Kilte Awula'ilo / Geomorphic regions and soil units / Atsaf and Menda’i plains
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Abreha and Atsbeha Church, Ethiopia Français&#160;: Vue de l'église Abreha et Atsbeha en Éthiopie
context_page_description: The soils of the Kilte Awula’ilo woreda in Tigray reflect its longstanding agricultural history, highly seasonal rainfall regime, relatively low temperatures, the presence of a wide depression at the foot of the Atsbi horst and steep slopes. Outstanding features in the soilscape are the wide ancient fluvial deposits, the soils of the granite batholith, cuestas and fertile lands behind tufa dams.
context_section_description: Associated soil types
  moderately deep, red-brownish, loamy soils with a good natural fertility (Chromic Luvisol) (20)
  shallow, stony loam soils with moderate fertility (Eutric Regosol and Cambisol) (21)
  sandy clay loams to sands developed on sandy colluvium (Eutric Arenosol, Regosol, Cambisol) (24)
  clays of floodplains with very high watertable with moderate to good natural fertility (Eutric Gleysol, Gleyic Cambisol) (33)
  Inclusions
  complex of rock outcrops, very stony and very shallow soils ((Lithic) Leptosol) (1)
  shallow, very stony, silt loamy to loamy soils (Skeletic Cambisol, Leptic Cambisol, Skeletic Regosol) (4)
caption: Lithic Leptosols around Abreha and Atsbeha church at the edge of Menda'i plain
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