Land Use Data for Latitude 11.75 Longitude -83.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Bluefields Bay and adjacent landscape Booby Cay Island Cerro Silva Nature Reserve Silva Hill |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Growing Period (days)
300 to 329Soil Types
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
02 to 10
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.
