Land Use Data for Latitude -7.75 Longitude -35.75

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

Locations

Mata do Estado

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Plantains
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Soybeans
Sugar Beets
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Tomatoes
Vegetables
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

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.