Land Use Data for Latitude -24.25 Longitude -46.75

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

Locations

Ilhas Queimada Pequena e Queimada Grande
Itanhaém / Mongaguá
Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar (entre Pedro de Toledo e Cubatão)

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics perhumid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

above 360

Soil Types

Acrisols
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

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

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.