Land Use Data for Latitude -24.25 Longitude -58.25

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

Locations

Río Negro: Bajo Chaco

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Seed Cotton
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

0

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.