Land Use Data for Latitude -24.25 Longitude -49.75

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

Locations

JaguariaĆ­va
Reserve de Biosphere Cerrado

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics perhumid
Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Roots tubers
Soybeans
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329
330 to 359
above 360

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

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
30 to 40

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Ne of JaguariaivaLimestone, General, Kaolin

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.