Land Use Data for Latitude 13.75 Longitude -16.75

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

Locations

Delta du Saloum
Delta du Saloum
Niumi National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Groundnuts in Shell
Millet
Oil-bearing crops

Growing Period (days)

90 to 119
120 to 149

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Lixisols
Solonchaks (Saline)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
75 to 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.