Land Use Data for Latitude -7.75 Longitude -36.25

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

Locations

Brejo de Taquaritinga

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Bare areas - Extensive pastoralism
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green
Fruits
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Maize
Plantains
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
75 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.