Land Use Data for Latitude -6.75 Longitude -43.25

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

Locations

Barragem de Boa Esperança

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Soybeans

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

Acrisols
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40
50 to 75

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.