SOIL TYPES DIVERSITY – AN ADVANTAGE
The varied Alentejo landscape; where plains intermingle with mountains, hills and valleys, also hosts an assortment of soil types. Almost all soil types that can be found in Portugal are represented in the Alentejo; derived from clay, limestone, quartz, granite, schist, sandstone, and others. The soils are relatively poor, and the approach to cultivation therefore typically Mediterranean - dominated by cereal crops, grazing land, cork oak and holm oak forests, olive groves and vineyards.
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