Land Use Data for Latitude -15.75 Longitude -40.25

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

Locations

Bandeira / Macarani

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Beans Dry
Cocoa Beans
Coffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Mixed
Plantains
Roots tubers
Sorghum
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269
270 to 299
300 to 329

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Lixisols
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40
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.