Land Use Data for Latitude -15.75 Longitude -40.75

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

Locations

Bandeira / Macarani

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Intensive 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
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Cocoa Beans
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Maize
Mixed
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

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

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)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
40 to 50
50 to 75

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.