“…The mean annual temperature is 21.2 °C, having humid and hot summers and a dry winter, with an average annual rainfall of 1423 mm (Miranda et al, 2015). The parent material comprising Cenozoic sediments that cover the Botucatu Formation (Paraná Sedimentary Basin, São Bento Group), constituted by unconsolidated sands with the thickness ranging from 5 to 7 m and pebbles at the base, and are spread at all São Paulo interior region (Azevedo et al, 1981;Giacheti et al, 1993). The action of weathering under tropical conditions makes the soil from the Cenozoic sediments highly lateritized (Giacheti et al, 1993).…”