Land Use Data for Latitude 21.25 Longitude -99.25

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Peña Blanca/Sierra Gorda
Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
30 to 40
40 to 50

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.