Land Use Data for Latitude -17.25 Longitude -44.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Baixo Rio das Velhas |
Agricultural Land Uses
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralismShrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Beans DryCassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Roots tubers
Sorghum
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
00 to 2
2 to 10
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.
