Site Implementation Plan: La Cortina, Cointzio, Mexico

Table of Contents

1. Site Information
2. Summary
3. Location description
   1. Soils
   2. Geology
   3. Annual rainfall and seasonality
   4. Location of experimental fields
4. Stakeholder information
5. Land use
6. Conservation measures and experimental setup
7. Monitoring activities
8. Analysis

Location description

Coordinates: Lat.: 19.514306 Long.: -101.203333

Situation: Plots are located at 25 km at the south of Morelia, the capital of the state of Michoacan, México.

Physiographic setting of the plots: The landscape is formed by gentle hills, with mainly moderate slope (10%) and corresponds mainly to the outside walls of the Atecuaro volcanic caldera, 13M years old. The presence of gullies is exceptional, because it is sheet erosion which occurs and the small rills disappear after every field works. Land used is for half part forest and half part fields, with one year corn alone and the other year fallow. Nevertheless, since the opening of the US market for the avocadoes, there is a lot of avocado plantations since the last 3 years.