Land Use Data for Latitude -27.25 Longitude -56.75

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

Locations

Isla Yacyretá
Reserva Natural Rincón de Santa María
Yabebyry

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Seed Cotton

Growing Period (days)

above 360

Soil Types

Acrisols
Arenosols (Sandy)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Planosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30

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.