Land Use Data for Latitude 15.75 Longitude -90.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Cerro El Amay Lachua-Ikbolay Laguna Lachuá National Park Visis Cabá Biosphere Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - PlantationsRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
Soil Types
Leptosols (Shallow soils)Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
30 to 40Agricultural 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.
