Land Use Data for Latitude 8.75 Longitude -80.75

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

Locations

General de División Omar Torrijos Herrera National Park
General de División Omar Torrijos Herrera National Park
Golfo de los Mosquitos Forests
Santa Fé National Park
Santa Fe National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329

Soil Types

Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20

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.