Land Use Data for Latitude 7.25 Longitude -72.25

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

Locations

El Tamá National Park
Parque Nacional El Tamá
Parque Nacional Natural Tamá
Tamá Natural National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Roots tubers
Sorghum

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269
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)

Terrain

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

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
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 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.