Land Use Data for Latitude -8.75 Longitude -35.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Engenho Coimbra (Usina Serra Grande) Engenho Coimbra (Usina Serra Grande) Pernambuco coastal forests ecoregion Serra do Urubu |
Agricultural Land Uses
Rainfed 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 DryCereals and cereal products
Cocoa Beans (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Onions+Shallots Green
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Soybeans
Stimulant crops
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Vegetables
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
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.
