Land Use Data for Latitude -6.25 Longitude -78.25

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

Locations

Marañón dry forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Rice Paddy
Stimulant crops

Growing Period (days)

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

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40

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.