Land Use Data for Latitude 10.25 Longitude -10.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Guinean montane forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattlePoultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasCoffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fonio
Maize
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
AcrisolsLeptosols (Shallow soils)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
above 100Mineral Extraction
| Site Name (Type) | Minerals |
|---|---|
| Aredor Mine | Diamond |
| Kindia | Aluminum |
| Tougue | Aluminum, Silica, Ferrosilicon |
| Tougue | Aluminum |
| Tougue-Dabola | Aluminum |
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.
