Land Use Data for Latitude -23.25 Longitude -45.25

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

Locations

Bacia do Paraƍba do Sul Environmental Protection Area
Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar (entre Caraguatatuba e Picinguaba)

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Rice Paddy
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329
330 to 359

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
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.