Land Use Data for Latitude 4.25 Longitude -52.75

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

Locations

Nouragues

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Fruit tree (forestry plantations only)
Fruits
Pineapples
Plantains

Growing Period (days)

330 to 359

Soil Types

Acrisols
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Plinthosols

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)

0
0 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.