Land Use Data for Latitude 8.75 Longitude -61.25

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

Locations

Orinoco Delta swamp forests ecoregion

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329

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

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.