Land Use Data for Latitude 11.25 Longitude -84.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Indio MaĆz Indio Maiz Biological Reserve Punta Gorda Sureste de Nicaragua Biosphere Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
Soil Types
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
010 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
40 to 50Agricultural 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.
