Land Use Data for Latitude -22.25 Longitude -42.75

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

Locations

Região Serrana do Rio de Janeiro
Serra dos Órgãos
Três Picos State Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20
20 to 30

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.