Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude -79.25

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

Locations

Bosque Protector Molleturo Mullopungo
Cajas National Park
Cajas-Mazán
Laguna Toreadora
Yanuncay-Yanasacha

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Cocoa Beans
Coffee
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Maize
Potatoes
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Andosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
20 to 30
30 to 40
40 to 50

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.