Land Use Data for Latitude -15.25 Longitude -44.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsWarm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands LivestockCattlePigs Poultry Sheep CropsBeans DryCassava Cereals and cereal products Coffee Green Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Grain (dried) Maize Roots tubers Stimulant crops Sugar Cane Sugar crops and sweeteners Growing Period (days)150 to 179180 to 209 Soil TypesFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Luvisols TerrainPlain or plateauSlopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 16 Population Density (persons per km2)02 to 10 10 to 50 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)30 to 40Agricultural 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. |