Land Area
1. Land Use
1.a Urban Land Use
The existing total urban area of the city is 2,011.27 hectares or 7.26% of 27,700 hectares of Koronadal's land area. Of the total urban area, 53,11% or 1,068.27 hectares is classified as residential, 6.79% or 136.51 hectares are classified a commercial, 3.93% or 79.07 hectares are classified as institutional, 0.14% or 2.73 hectares are classified as industrial, 1.09% or 21.88 hectares are classifed as agro-industrial, 7.84% or 157.74 hectares are classified as parks and open spaces, 11.92% or 239.75 hectares are classified for roads, rivers and creeks, and the remaining 15.18% or 305.32 hectares are classified as infra/utilities, special use and agricultural. The urban center of the city includes the 4 Zones, Barangay Morales, GPS, Sta. Cruz, and portion of Barangay Sto. Niño, Concepcion and Paraiso.
1.b General Land Use
As per approved general land use of Koronadal, 15,224.88 hectares or 54.96% of the total land use is classified as agricultural. Portion of this agricultural area is classified as agricultural. Portion of this agricultural area that is utilized for other functional land uses are excluded from the protected prime agricultural areas such as irrigated lands. Forest area located in the Roxas and Quezon mountain range is more or less 7,634.05 hectares or 27.56% of the land. Open grassland is about 3.2% or 906.12 vacant lots. Built-up area is 2,912.45 hectares or 10.51% of the total land area, 2.08% or 576.34 hectares is industrial.
For agro-industrial area, economic activities are allowed such as rice mills, poultry, piggery and the like, which involve processing of agricultural products into goods. This cover more or less 185.00 hectares or 0.67% of the land. Quarrying activity is one of the major sources of income of some barangays.
2. General Land classification
Alienable and Disposable
Forest
Rivers and Creeks
3. Land Capability Classification
The land capability of Koronadal is classified by the Department of Agriculture of south Cotabato as Land Suitable for Cultivation, Land suitable/limited to Pasture, land Suitable/Limited to forest and land suitable/Limited to Wildlife and Recreation.
Parcels of land that belong to flat or very good land, moderately sloping, moderately eroded land, and can be cultivated with caution are Land Suitable for Cultivation, where 73.50% of Koronadal's land area falls within this category. Parcels of land that belong to fairly good land which ranges from sloping to severely eroded land, and can be cultivated with extra caution are Land Suitable/limited to Pasture, where 8.47% of the total land area falls within this category. Land Suitable/limited to Forest is a land that belongs to steep to very land, very severely eroded, excessivly eroded land, and lands shallow for cultivation where 10.64% of the total land area is within this category. Land that belongs to hiily/mountainous, barren and rugged land is land Suitable/limited to Wildlife and Recreation, where 7.39% of Koronadal's land area.
4. Soil
4.a Soil suitability
The Soil Suitability of Koronadal has been categorizes by the department of Agriculture into four, namely: built-up area/soil suitability for urban use, good/soil suitability for rice crops, fair/soil sauitability for diversified crops, and very poor/soil suitability for tree crops.
4.b Basic Soil Type
Koronadal has four types of soil, namely: San Manuel fine sandy loam (Koronadal fine sandy loam), New Iloilo sandy loam (Bulol sandy loam), Nupol sandy loam and Faraon clay loam. the identified San Manuel fine sandy loam locally known as Koronadal fine sandy loam type of soil with alluvial deposits from mixed origin is found at the low land areas.
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