Land Use Data for Latitude 38.75 Longitude -6.25

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

Locations

Alange
Central Badajoz mountain ranges
COLONIAS DE CERNICALO PRIMILLA DE GUAREÑA
COLONIAS DE CERNICALO PRIMILLA DE RIVERA DEL FRESNO
Don Benito-Guareña
EMBALSE DE MONTIJO
IGLESIA DE LA PURIFICACIÓN DE ALMENDRALEJO
Lácara-Morante
Mérida-Montijo reservoir
SIERRA GRANDE DE HORNACHOS
SIERRAS CENTRALES Y EMBALSE DE ALANGE

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Mediterranean humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Oil-bearing crops

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Acrisols
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
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)

2 to 5

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.