# HALOWERK Central Land – Slovakia Soil Texture Class

> HALOWERK Central Land – Slovakia Soil Texture Class is a paid API for AI agents from mitteleuropa.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns the USDA soil texture class (e.g. sandy loam, clay) derived from SoilGrids sand, silt, and clay fractions for a given coordinate within Slovakia.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mitteleuropa.halowerk.com/v1/sk-soil-texture
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/halowerk-central-land-slovakia-soil-texture-class-6afbf3d7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_SSJkFxBGQN30RQtyYd4xf

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability halowerk-central-land-slovakia-soil-texture-class-6afbf3d7 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the USDA soil texture class at latitude 48.14 and longitude 17.11 in Slovakia — is it sandy loam, clay, or something else?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a standardized USDA soil texture class specifically for a point location within Slovakia, sourced from the globally consistent SoilGrids dataset. Prefer this over generic soil APIs when you need reproducible, science-grade texture classification (sand/silt/clay-derived) rather than local survey data. It is ideal for agricultural planning, environmental assessment, or geospatial enrichment workflows targeting Slovak territory.

## Known failure modes

- Coordinate outside Slovakia boundary — request rejected with a geographic validation error
- Latitude or longitude out of European coverage range (34–72.5°N, 31.5°W–40.5°E) — schema validation error
- SoilGrids upstream data unavailable — service error or timeout
- Payment failure — x402 payment not accepted or insufficient USDC balance
- Missing required latitude or longitude field — request rejected with schema error

## How this service works

USDA texture class calculated from SoilGrids sand, silt and clay fractions. The coordinate is validated against the Natural Earth boundary for Slovakia; results outside it are rejected before payment.

## Output

Returns the USDA soil texture class (e.g. 'Sandy Loam', 'Clay Loam', 'Silt') derived from SoilGrids sand, silt, and clay fractions for the queried coordinate. Coordinates outside the Slovakia boundary are rejected without charge.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "latitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 72.5,
   "minimum": 34,
   "description": "WGS84 latitude inside the published European coverage."
  },
  "longitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 40.5,
   "minimum": -31.5,
   "description": "WGS84 longitude inside the published European coverage."
  }
 }
}
```

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