Land Use Data for Latitude 8.25 Longitude -78.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Congo and Cucunatí Estuaries Ensenada de Garachiné Wetlands Punta Garachiné-Cerro Sapo Punta Patiño Nature Reserve and Wetlands |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics perhumidWarm Tropics humid
Livestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
330 to 359
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)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Regosols (Other)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
00 to 2
2 to 10
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.
