Land Use Data for Latitude -23.25 Longitude -46.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Serra da Cantareira |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryCropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics humid
Livestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Beans DryCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)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)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
10 to 2020 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.
