Land Use Data for Latitude 8.75 Longitude -79.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Altos de Campana National Park Chorrera Bay Metropolitan Nature Park Taboga Group Taborcillo Island and Chame Bay Uraba Island marine |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - PlantationsRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
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)
Unknown
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
10 to 20Agricultural 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.
