Land Use Data for Latitude 17.25 Longitude -90.75

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

Locations

Laguna del Tigre National Park
Sierra del Lacandón National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 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.