Land Use Data for Latitude -9.25 Longitude -36.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Reserva Biológica de Pedra Talhada |
Agricultural Land Uses
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Bare areas - Extensive pastoralism
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
Beans DryCassava
Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Maize
Plantains
Roots tubers
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
02 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
50 to 7575 to 100
above 100
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.
