Locality
60°6´35" west longitude, 22°37´3" south latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Colonia Fernheim, Departamento Boquerón, Chaco, West-Paraguay, Südamerika

Religious relevance of location
Heavy soil from the Mennonite colonies in West-Paraguay which is used for cattle (milk and meat production) since the sixties. Before the Mennonites did not have heavy machinery to clear the dense thorn bush and had to live from agriculture products produced on sandy Kamp soils. Nowadays the farmers get about 80 % of their income from these soils, before it was just the opposite.

Classification of the earth

Structure	silty-clayey loam
Colour	brown
Age	Pleistocene to Holocene

Donor

Dr. Rainer Hoffmann,
 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Hannover,
 Germany