Land Use Data for Latitude -8.25 Longitude -36.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Brejo dos Cavalos |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Shrubs - Mod. intensive pastoralism
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
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Beans DryCantaloupes&oth Melons
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Chillies&Peppers Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Maize
Roots tubers
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Tomatoes
Growing Period (days)
120 to 149150 to 179
180 to 209
Soil Types
Leptosols (Shallow soils)Luvisols
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 22 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
50 to 7575 to 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.
