Land Use Data for Latitude -1.75 Longitude -79.25

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

Locations

Las Guardias

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Bananas & plantains
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Cocoa Beans
Coffee
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
MIXED
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239
240 to 269

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)
Luvisols

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
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)

20 to 30
30 to 40
50 to 75

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.