Land Use Data for Latitude 5.25 Longitude -74.75

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

Locations

Cuenca del Río Jiménez
Cuenca Hidrográfica del Río San Francisco and surrounding area
Cuenca Hidrográfica del Río San Francisco National Protective Forests Reserves
La Victoria

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid
Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Maize
Onions+Shallots Green
Plantains
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329
330 to 359

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)

Terrain

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

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)

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

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
20 to 30

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.