Land Use Data for Latitude -15.25 Longitude -49.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Cerrado ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Soybeans
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269Soil Types
AcrisolsFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
00 to 2
2 to 10
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 3030 to 40
Mineral Extraction
| Site Name (Type) | Minerals |
|---|---|
| Igarape Surubim | Gold |
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.
