Land Use Data for Latitude 43.25 Longitude 23.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Berkovitsa Berkovitsa Meadows Ponor Ponor Vrachanski Balkan Vrachanski Balkan |
Agricultural Land Uses
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Temperate drylandsLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BarleyCereals and cereal products
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Sunflower Seed
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
120 to 149150 to 179
Soil Types
Chernozems (Black soils rich in organic matter)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Regosols (Other)
Unknown
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
Population Density (persons per km2)
02 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
10 to 20Agricultural 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.
