Land Use Data for Latitude -9.75 Longitude -50.25

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

Locations

Parque Estadual do Cantão

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 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.