Land Use Data for Latitude -20.25 Longitude -41.75

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

Locations

CaparaĆ³ National Park
Parque Nacional do CaparaĆ³

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Plantains
Roots tubers
Soybeans
Stimulant crops

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269

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)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

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

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
30 to 40

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Mina Do BancoMica

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.