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With the purpose of evaluating the soil quality in three land use systems, they were established in the community of Las Lagunas, District of Bugaba, Province of Chiriquí; sampling plots where each farm represented a cropping system. The systems evaluated were: cocoa agroforestry system, intercropping system and plantain monoculture. To obtain the site quality index (ICS) values, the methodology proposed by Cantú et al. (2007), the chemical-physical indicators are analyzed using the methodology of Díaz Romeu and Hunter (1978) and Henríquez and Cabalceta (1999). According to the characterization, the intercropped system and plantain cultivation are similar, differing from the SAF of cocoa, the latter being able to be considered organic. The attributes selected for ICS were: pH in water (1:2.5), availability of nutrients, nitrogen% and bulk density; corresponding to the plantain cultivation system a value of 2.85, intercropping 2.55 and SAF cocoa 2.54. For the physical - chemical indicators, the plot of plantain cultivation and intercropping recorded the highest contents of phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, organic matter, nitrogen, apparent density and better pH; in relation to the cocoa agroforestry system. The bulk density for the cocoa agroforestry system was of very high quality, being a more organic system with better soil quality.
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