Land Use Data for Latitude 12.25 Longitude -16.75

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Parc National de Basse Casamance

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Wetlands - Mangrove
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Groundnuts in Shell
Millet
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.