Land Use Data for Latitude 8.25 Longitude -83.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| El Chorogo-Palo Blanco |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Agriculture in protected areas
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics perhumidWarm Tropics humid
Livestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Growing Period (days)
300 to 329330 to 359
Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
5 to 10Agricultural 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.
