Land Use Data for Latitude 17.25 Longitude -91.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Petén-Veracruz moist forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
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
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Rice Paddy
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269270 to 299
Soil Types
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
02 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 3030 to 40
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.
