Land Use Data for Latitude -16.25 Longitude -41.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Reserva Biológica da Mata Escura |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
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-humidWarm Tropics drylands
Livestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Beans DryCassava
Cereals and cereal products
Cocoa Beans
Cocoa Beans (also in forestry plantations)
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Maize
Plantains
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sorghum
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179180 to 209
210 to 239
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Lixisols
Terrain
Plain 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)
02 to 10
10 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.
