Land Use Data for Latitude 4.75 Longitude -56.25

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

Locations

Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves ecoregion
Ralleigh Falls - Voltzberg Nature Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid

Crops

Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)

Growing Period (days)

330 to 359

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40

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.