Land Use Data for Latitude 2.25 Longitude -77.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Northwestern Andean montane forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Wetlands - Mangrove
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics perhumidLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Growing Period (days)
above 360Soil Types
Andosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)Arenosols (Sandy)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 30Agricultural 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.
