Land Use Data for Latitude 38.75 Longitude -5.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| La Serena |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Ecosystems
Temperate humidMediterranean humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Oil-bearing crops
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
AcrisolsFluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Regosols (Other)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
2 to 5Agricultural 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.
