Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude -44.75

Locations

Baixada Maranhense

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Sugar Cane

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Plinthosols
Solonchaks (Saline)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km²)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50
50 to 75
75 to 100