Land Use Data for Latitude -7.75 Longitude -35.25

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

Locations

Igarassu
Serra do Mascarenhas

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

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.