Land Use Data for Latitude -10.25 Longitude -59.25

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

Locations

Saltos das Andorinhas e de Dardanelos

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0

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.