Land Use Data for Latitude 11.25 Longitude -15.25

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

Locations

Cantanhez forests
Rio Tombali, Rio Cumbijã and Ilha de Melo

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Wetlands - Mangrove

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Groundnuts in Shell
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.