Land Use Data for Latitude -19.75 Longitude -41.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Caratinga |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryShrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasBeans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Roots tubers
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Luvisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 58 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 3030 to 40
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.
