Land Use Data for Latitude 13.75 Longitude -16.75Area 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 drylandsLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsGroundnuts in Shell
Millet
Oil-bearing crops
Growing Period (days)
90 to 119120 to 149
Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Lixisols
Solonchaks (Saline)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
50 to 7575 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.
