Land Use Data for Latitude 40.75 Longitude -1.25

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

Locations

Campo Visiedo
PARAMERAS DE BLANCAS
PARAMERAS DE CAMPO VISIEDO
PARAMERAS DE POZONDÓN

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
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

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Temperate drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Calcisols (Substantial accumulation of secondary lime)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
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
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

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

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Ojos NegrosIron

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.