Land Use Data for Latitude -12.25 Longitude -40.75

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

Locations

Ibiquera / Ruy Barbosa

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Shrubs - Mod. 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

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Maize
Plantains
Roots tubers
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
50 to 250
above 250

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.