Land Use Data for Latitude -8.75 Longitude -35.75Area 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 EcosystemsWarm Tropics humidWarm Tropics sub-humid LivestockCattleGoats Pigs Poultry CropsBeans DryCereals and cereal products Cocoa Beans (also in forestry plantations) Grain (dried) Maize Oil-bearing crops Onions+Shallots Green Rice Paddy Roots tubers Soybeans Stimulant crops Sugar Cane Sugar crops and sweeteners Vegetables Growing Period (days)210 to 239240 to 269 270 to 299 Soil TypesFerralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Leptosols (Shallow soils) Lixisols TerrainPlain or plateauSlopes (degrees)2 to 55 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 Population Density (persons per km2)2 to 1010 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. |