An attempt was made to analyse the physico-chemical characteristics of soil sample aggregates proceeding from three different areas: corn growing-plots, orchards of fruits of temperate climate and eucalyptus groves. In the laboratory the following determinations were carried out: granulometric, pH, C and N totais, Ca++, Mg++ and K+ exchangeable and capacity of cation exchange. The variation of element contents was not very large in the different classes of size of the aggregates of the analysed soils. Ina general way, the aggregates of the "corn" area presented the lowest levels of the analysed elements whereas the other two, "orchards and encalyptus plots", showed quite immaterial differences. The sum of exchangeable bases and the capacity for cation exchange seems to be intimately related to the values of organic matter, thus showing the importance of this soil constituent.