Land Use Data for Latitude -25.75 Longitude -54.25

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

Locations

Parque Nacional do Iguaçu
Parque Nacional Iguazú
Parque Nacional Iguazú y alrededores
Parque Provincial Urugua-í
Parque Provincial Uruzú y Reserva Forestal San Jorge
Urugua-í Provincial Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

above 360

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
20 to 30

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
San Ignacio and DeseadoTitanium, Metal, Iron

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.