Land Use Data for Latitude -32.25 Longitude -52.25

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

Locations

Banhado do Maçarico e Cordões Litorâneos Adjacentes
Estuário da Laguna dos Patos
Várzea do Canal São Gonçalo

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Mediterranean humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Seed Cotton
Soybeans

Growing Period (days)

330 to 359

Soil Types

Acrisols
Alisols
Arenosols (Sandy)
Planosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

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

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.