Land Use Data for Latitude 14.25 Longitude -83.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Miskito pine forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Plantations
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Growing Period (days)
300 to 329Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)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)
00 to 2
2 to 10
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
30 to 4040 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.
