Land Use Data for Latitude 41.75 Longitude 23.25

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

Locations

Kresna Gordge
Kresna Gorge
Melnik Pyramids
Melnik Pyramids
Pirin
Pirin
Reserve Doupki-Djindjiritza

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - 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

Ecosystems

Polar
Boreal drylands
Temperate drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Oil-bearing crops
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sunflower Seed
Tobacco Leaves
Tobacco rubber and other crops

Growing Period (days)

60 to 89
90 to 119
120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20

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.