Land Use Data for Latitude -9.25 Longitude -35.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Murici Murici Ecological Station Usina Cachoeira |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
Beans DryCassava
Cereals and cereal products
Cocoa Beans (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Maize
Plantains
Roots tubers
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
270 to 299
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 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.
