Land Use Data for Latitude 4.25 Longitude -52.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
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Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - PlantationsRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics perhumidLivestock
CattlePoultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Fruit tree (forestry plantations only)
Fruits
Pineapples
Plantains
Growing Period (days)
330 to 359Soil Types
AcrisolsFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Plinthosols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
00 to 2
10 to 50
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.
