Land Use Data for Latitude 18.25 Longitude -88.25

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

Locations

Northeastern Belize
Shipstern Nature Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Bananas
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30

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.