Land Use Data for Latitude -9.25 Longitude -36.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Urban land Bare areas - Extensive pastoralism Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsWarm Tropics sub-humidLivestockCattleGoats Pigs Poultry CropsBeans DryCassava Cereals and cereal products Fruits Grain (dried) Maize Plantains Roots tubers Sugar Cane Sugar crops and sweeteners Growing Period (days)210 to 239240 to 269 Soil TypesFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Leptosols (Shallow soils) Lixisols TerrainPlain or plateauSlopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 Population Density (persons per km2)02 to 10 10 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)50 to 7575 to 100 above 100 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. |