Land Use Data for Latitude 3.25 Longitude -61.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Maracá Ecological Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Maize
Plantains
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
Soil Types
AcrisolsFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Regosols (Other)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
0Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
30 to 40Agricultural 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.
