Land Use Data for Latitude -18.25 Longitude -42.25

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

Locations

Bahia interior forests ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Maize
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Seed Cotton
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
30 to 40

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Corrego VerdinhoQuartz, Beryllium, Mica
CruzeiroMica, Lithium
Santa Maria Do SuacuiIron
Serra Dos LourencosMica

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.