Kvillehed is located 30 km NW of Gothenburg and is part of Säve parish with and have about 108 inhabitants in an area of about 10 Ha.
Göteborg City Airport is located 1,5 km away from the little harbour in Kvillehed where it is approximately 7 arrivals and 8 departures every day.
The landscape is mainly agricultural land with small forest areas and some smaller spots of bedrock.
The harbour is a small bay of Nordre älv where there is place for around 10 smaller boats.
In the eastern part of the harbor, there is an outlet of a creek which can be followed throughout the farmland towards east. The harbor is situated in the Nordre älv estuary which is a part of an EU-network containing areas with high nature values worth preserving.
According to SGU´s soil type-map the bottom in Nordre älv consist of silt. On land in the bay we have stream sediment to the E-NE, post glacial clay to the W-SW. The creek is running mainly through post glacial clay. Overall, the area is dominated by this post glacial clay and bedrock. The coarser sediments like the stream sand are only found in connection to Nordre älv.
