Land Use Data for Latitude 22.25 Longitude -81.75

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

Locations

CiƩnaga de Zapata

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Grapefruit and Pomelos
Oranges
Sugar cane

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10

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.