Land Use Data for Latitude 6.75 Longitude -9.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Western Guinean lowland forests ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 22 to 10
10 to 50
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.
