Land Use Data for Latitude -15.25 Longitude -39.75

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

Locations

Caramuru/Paraguassu Indigenous Reserve
Serra Bonita
Serra do Teimoso

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
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
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329
330 to 359
above 360

Soil Types

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
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

20 to 30
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.