Land Use Data for Latitude 11.25 Longitude -15.75

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

Locations

Ilha de Bolama: Rio Grande de Buba

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Urban land
Wetlands - Mangrove

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Lixisols

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)

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.