Land Use Data for Latitude 15.25 Longitude -87.75

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

Locations

Pico Pijol National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Sugar cane

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Arena BlancaGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead
BufaloGold
D.M.BijaoLimestone, General
El CaracolAntimony
El UrracoZinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper
ManchagualaIron
MaranonIron
Marmolera De Santa RitaLimestone, General
Mina PayaAntimony
Minas De CarbonGraphite

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.