Land Use Data for Latitude 12.25 Longitude -16.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Parc National de Basse Casamance |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Wetlands - Mangrove
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattlePoultry
Sheep
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsGroundnuts in Shell
Millet
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
120 to 149150 to 179
Soil Types
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
above 100Agricultural 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.
