Land Use Data for Latitude -0.75 Longitude -49.75

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

Locations

Ilha de Marajó

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Bananas
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Plantains
Stimulant crops

Growing Period (days)

300 to 329

Soil Types

Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Solonchaks (Saline)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km²)

0
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30

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.