Land Use Data for Latitude 11.25 Longitude -16.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Arquipélago dos Bijagós |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Wetlands - Mangrove
Wetlands - Agro-pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179Soil Types
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Lixisols
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.
