Land Use Data for Latitude 10.75 Longitude -83.75

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

Locations

Barra del Colorado (mixto) National Wildlife Refuge
Caribbean lowlands and wetlands
Humedal Caribe Noreste Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Convention)
Río San Juan Wildlife Refuge
San Juan River: La Inmaculada Concepcion de Maria

Agricultural Land Uses

Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid
Warm Tropics humid

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329
330 to 359

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50

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.