Ecological Land Type

ELT 13f

Elevation Range
Minimum: 
1734 m
Minimum in ft: 
5688 ft
Maximum: 
2322 m
Maximum in ft: 
7619 ft
Median: 
1967 m
Median in ft: 
6453 ft
Soil Summary: 
dominant soils are very shallow to moderately deep to bedrock, very flaggy and extremely, very gravelly, and gravelly fine sandy loam, sandy loam and loam surfaces over very channery, flaggy, and gravelly fine sandy loams, sandy loams and loams, no lime present, no to moderate development; unit dominated by Pima County soil survey map units 20 (Cortaro-Rock outcrop-Faraway complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes), 76 (Spudrock-Far-Rock outcrop complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes), and 75 (Spudrock-Boriana complex, 10 to 35 percent slopes). These units comprise 52%, 25% and 23% of the ELT, respectively
Geologic Materials: 
alluvium, colluvium and residuum associated with the Catalina-Rincon igneous metamorphic complex (TXm) comprises 100% of the unit
Landforms: 
moderately to finely dissected, moderately incised mountain slopes