Land Use Data for Latitude -8.75 Longitude -60.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Madeira-Tapajós moist forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - PlantationsEcosystems
Warm Tropics humidCrops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Growing Period (days)
270 to 299Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
Population Density (persons per km2)
0Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 3050 to 75
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.
