Land Use Data for Latitude -24.25 Longitude -55.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Bosque Mbaracayú Bosque Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics perhumidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
330 to 359above 360
Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 3030 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.
