Land Use Data for Latitude -11.75 Longitude -46.75

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

Locations

Vale do Rio Palmeiras

Agricultural Land Uses

Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Stimulant crops

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
30 to 40
40 to 50

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.