Land Use Data for Latitude -16.25 Longitude -39.25

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

Locations

Coroa Vermelha State Environmental Protection Area
Estação Veracruz
Parque Nacional do Pau Brasil / Trancoso
Santa Cruz Cabrália / Belmonte

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Stimulant crops

Growing Period (days)

above 360

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
30 to 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
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.