Land Use Data for Latitude -18.25 Longitude -43.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Águas Vertentes State Environmental Protection Area Parque Estadual do Pico do Itambé e Serra do Gavião Parque Estadual do Rio Preto |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
00 to 2
2 to 10
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 3030 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.
