Land Use Data for Latitude -16.75 Longitude -39.75

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

Locations

Bahia coastal forests ecoregion
Serra de Itamaraju

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
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 perhumid
Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Cantaloupes&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 329
330 to 359
above 360

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

30 to 40
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.