Table 2. Summary of land cover, fire incidence and rural population size for the entire Legal Amazon administrative region, distinguishing areas within and outside INCRA agrarian reform settlements.
| Legal Amazonia | Agrarian settlements | Public and private land outside settlements | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total area (km2) | 5,030,583 | 267,092 | 5.3% | 4,763,491 | 94.7% | |
| Rural households (2010 census data, INCRA 2012) | 1,965,216 | 353,243 | 18.0% | 1,611,973 | 82.0% | |
| Rural population (2010 IBGE census) | 6,710,666 | 1,206,227 | 5,504,439 | |||
| Fire incidence (annual mean hot pixels km-2) | 0.020 | 0.054 | 0.018 | |||
| Land cover, km2 (and %) | ||||||
| Forest | 3,116,448 | 62.0% | 105,794 | 39.9% | 3,010,653 | 64.7% |
| Cerrado/Pantanal | 710,788 | 14.1% | 12,405 | 4.7% | 698,384 | 15.0% |
| Agropastoral conversion | 1,092,211 | 21.7% | 146,937 | 55.4% | 945,274 | 20.3% |
| Total land area (excluding water) | 4,919,447 | 265,136 | 4,654,311 | |||
| Water | 111,136 | 2.2% | 1,956 | 0.7% | 109,180 | 2.3% |