Land Use Data for Latitude -18.25 Longitude -42.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - PlantationsGrasslands - 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 EcosystemsWarm Tropics sub-humidLivestockCattlePigs Poultry CropsBananasBeans 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 239Soil TypesFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Luvisols TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Slopes (degrees)2 to 55 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 Population Density (persons per km2)00 to 2 2 to 10 10 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)20 to 3030 to 40 Mineral Extraction
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. |