Land Use Data for Latitude 18.25 Longitude -88.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Northeastern Belize Shipstern Nature Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Crops
BananasCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
Soil Types
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
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.
