Land Use Data for Latitude 41.25 Longitude -0.25

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

Locations

Alcañiz salt lakes
LA RETUERTA Y SALADAS DE SÁSTAGO
Los Monegros (South)

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
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)

Ecosystems

Temperate humid
Temperate drylands
Mediterranean humid
Subtopical humid
Subtropical drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239

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)
Gypsisols (Soils with substantial accumulation of secondary calcium sulphate)
Solonchaks (Saline)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50

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.