Land Use Data for Latitude -8.75 Longitude -42.75

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

Locations

Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara
Serra da Capivara National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
above 250

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.