Land Use Data for Latitude 9.25 Longitude -62.25

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

Locations

Orinoco wetlands ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Wetlands - Mangrove
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.