Land Use Data for Latitude 10.25 Longitude -71.25

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

Locations

Maracaibo dry forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Maize
Sorghum

Growing Period (days)

90 to 119
120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

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.