Land Use Data for Latitude -14.75 Longitude -39.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Ilhéus / Itabuna Lagoa Encatada e Rio Almada State Environmental Protection Area |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics perhumidLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Beans Dry
Cassava
Cocoa Beans
Cocoa Beans (also in forestry plantations)
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Roots tubers
Stimulant crops
Growing Period (days)
330 to 359above 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
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 22 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
20 to 3030 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.
