Land Use Data for Latitude -27.75 Longitude -56.25

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

Locations

Estancia Puerto Valle

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

above 360

Soil Types

Acrisols
Arenosols (Sandy)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
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.