Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude -46.25

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

Locations

Gurupi

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Seed Cotton
Soybeans
Sugar Cane

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50
50 to 75

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.