Land Use Data for Latitude -16.75 Longitude -39.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Bahia coastal forests ecoregion Serra de Itamaraju |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherRainfed 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 perhumidWarm Tropics humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
Beans DryCantaloupes&oth Melons
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Chillies&Peppers Green
Grain (dried)
Maize
Roots tubers
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Tomatoes
Growing Period (days)
300 to 329330 to 359
above 360
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Lixisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
30 to 4050 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.
