Land Use Data for Latitude 8.25 Longitude -82.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Agriculture in protected areas EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics perhumid LivestockCattlePigs Poultry CropsBananas (also in forestry plantations)Beans Dry Cereals and cereal products Grain (dried) Maize Potatoes Rice Paddy Roots tubers Sugar Cane Sugar crops and sweeteners Growing Period (days)330 to 359above 360 Soil TypesAndosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)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) TerrainPlain 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 above 45 Population Density (persons per km2)2 to 1010 to 50 50 to 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)10 to 20Mineral Extraction
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. |