Land Use Data for Latitude 21.75 Longitude -98.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Veracruz moist forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Sorghum
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179180 to 209
210 to 239
Soil Types
Vertisols (Heavy clay)Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 30Agricultural 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.
