Land Use Data for Latitude -14.75 Longitude -40.75

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

Locations

Vitória da Conquista

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Stimulant crops

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Acrisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.