Land Use Data for Latitude -12.75 Longitude -38.75

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

Locations

Santo Amaro / Cachoeira

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Cocoa Beans (also in forestry plantations)
Coffee Green
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Maize
Mixed
Oil-bearing crops
Roots tubers
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

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.