Land Use Data for Latitude -33.75 Longitude -59.25

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

Locations

Barrancas de Baradero
Pastizales de Ibicuy

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Soybeans
Sunflower Seed
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20

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.