Land Use Data for Latitude -27.25 Longitude -53.75

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

Locations

Parque Estadual do Turvo

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Sorghum
Soybeans
Sugar Cane

Growing Period (days)

above 360

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10
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.