Land Use Data for Latitude -3.75 Longitude -51.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Baixo Rio Xingu |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - PlantationsRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Sugar Cane
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
Soil Types
AcrisolsFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
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
2 to 10
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
30 to 40Agricultural 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.
