Land Use Data for Latitude 37.25 Longitude -7.25

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

Locations

Castro Marim
Isla Cristina and Ayamonte marshes and Prado lagoon
MARISMAS DE ISLA CRISTINA
MARISMAS DEL RIO PIEDRAS Y FLECHA DEL ROMPIDO
River Piedras marshes and Rompido sandbank
Sapais de Castro Marim
West Andévalo

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Mediterranean humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Cereals and cereal products
Oil tree crops (forestry plantations only)
Oil-bearing crops
Olives
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5
5 to 10

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.