Land Use Data for Latitude -31.25 Longitude -55.75

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

Locations

North "Quebradas" and grasslands

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

330 to 359

Soil Types

Alisols
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20

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.