This work presents and discusses the geotechnical characteristics of the Cabrito's inlet soft clay in Salvador-Bahia. On this area is in course the implantation of an embankment, seeking to locate families that inhabited previously in the place, in houses built on wood piles. The determination of the soil properties was made through geotechnical tests of field and laboratory. For the accomplishment of the tests of dissipation of poropressure in situ, a piezometer probe was developed, that is presented in this work. For the continuos oedometer tests, some modifications were accomplished in a conventional cell, that are also presented in this volume. Finally, the obtained results of physical , of consolidation, of deformation and of resistance characteristics, are analyzed together, in such a way to obtain a better characterization of the properties of the deposit.