Land Use Data for Latitude 9.75 Longitude -85.25

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

Locations

Nicoya Peninsula
Refugio de Vida Silvestre Reserva Karen Mogensen F.

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Maize

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Andosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Bellavista (Surface)Gold
La Colonia Carmona ProspectManganese
LepantoHalite
Tambor OccurrenceManganese

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.