Agricultural ·Modern ·Transregional ·Asia

Terraced Rice Cultivation in Monsoon Asia

Documented terrace systems across the monsoon belt, with elevation and watershed attributes.

2,910 records Contemporary survey 19.26° N · 108.31° E

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Fig. 1 Interactive distribution of the 2,910 geolocated records on a live carto-positron base · globe / flat projection · decimal degrees (WGS 84).

Abstract

A survey of engineered rice-terrace landscapes across monsoon Asia, recording altitude bands, watershed, and irrigation typology. The dataset supports comparative study of pre-industrial hydraulic agriculture from the Cordilleras to the eastern Himalaya.

Record

Theme	Agricultural — land use & cultivation
Region	Asia
Temporal range	Contemporary survey
Geographic coverage	Transregional
Records	2,910 geolocated entities
Data source	Wikidata + curated CSV
Centroid	19.26° N · 108.31° E
Last revised	Feb 2026

Provenance & sources

Compiled from a curated CSV corpus (n = 2,910) and reconciled against Wikidata entities. Geographic coordinates were verified against published gazetteers prior to publication.

· accessed 2026-02-12

SPARQL query

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?coord ?inception WHERE { ?item wdt:P31 ?class . ?item wdt:P625 ?coord . OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P571 ?inception . } SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". } }

Recommended citation

Ortelius Editorial Board, ed. “Terraced Rice Cultivation in Monsoon Asia” [dataset]. Ortelius: A Research Atlas of Thematic Cartography, Study AT-007. 2026. doi:10.5281/ortelius.007

DATASET CC BY 4.0 · ENRICHMENT CC0 · CARTOGRAPHY MIT

Data & reproducibility

The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.007.

↓ data.csv ↓ data.geojson