Land Use Data for Latitude -15.75 Longitude -57.25

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

Locations

Estação Ecológica Serra das Araras
Serra das Araras Ecological Station

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Wetlands - Agro-pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
40 to 50

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.