Land Use Data for Latitude -14.25 Longitude -60.75

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

Locations

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Bananas
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Soybeans

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Acrisols
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
30 to 40
40 to 50

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Cerro Negrito Manganese DepositManganese
Kaolin OccurrenceKaolin
Rock Crystal OccurrenceQuartz, Semiprecious Gemstone
Uranium OccurrenceUranium

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.