A large mass movement like flow-sliding of soil, occurred in March 28, 2013 at the Port of Santana, in the region of the mouth of the Amazon River in Amapá, led to the study of the local soil characteristics, whose behavior at rupture was similar to the sensitive soils from Scandinavia and eastern Canada, moving like a viscous fluid and reaching long distances on the river bottom. To try to understand the behavior of the material, this paper has proposed extensive experimental program aimed at the physical, chemical, mineralogical and micromorphological characterization of the material. Field tests results on soil samples studied are presented and the sensitive soil classification methods established in the geotechnical environment are discussed about its efficiency. The paper presents results of physical tests, including sensitivity tests with Swedish fall-cone and conventional laboratory geotechnical characterization tests; chemical tests of grain composition, cation exchange capacity, pH and percentage of organic matter; ion composition, conductivity electrical and salinity of pore water of soil; mineralogical tests with X-ray diffraction, micromorphology viewing tests of soils with scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive detector. The results have identified high sensitivities in some of the test samples, as well as some causes of its development.