Land Use Data for Latitude 4.75 Longitude -75.75

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

Locations

Bosques del Oriente de Risaralda
Cañón del Río Barbas y Bremen
Cauca Valley montane forests ecoregion
Finca la Betulia Reserva la Patasola

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics perhumid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Maize
Plantains
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

above 360

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)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
La Morena MineGold, Lead
Salento RegionAntimony

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.