Land Use Data for Latitude 0.75 Longitude -51.25

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

Locations

Savanas do Amapá

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Maize
Roots tubers
Sorghum

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

0

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.