Land Use Data for Latitude -15.75 Longitude -40.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Bandeira / Macarani |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - 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-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Beans DryCassava
Cereals and cereal products
Cocoa Beans
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Maize
Mixed
Roots tubers
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
240 to 269
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)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 3040 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.
