Land Use Data for Latitude 29.25 Longitude 90.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherMixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsPolarBoreal drylands Temperate drylands LivestockCattleGoats Sheep CropsPotatoesGrowing Period (days)030 to 59 60 to 89 90 to 119 120 to 149 Soil TypesCambisols (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) TerrainMountain > 2500Slopes (degrees)2 to 55 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 above 45 Population Density (persons per km2)2 to 1010 to 50 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)20 to 3030 to 40 40 to 50 50 to 75 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. |