Land Use Data for Latitude 34.75 Longitude -6.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Merja Halloufa Merja Zerga |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryCropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Ecosystems
Mediterranean humidSubtropical drylands
Livestock
CattlePoultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Sugar Cane
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209Soil Types
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Kastanozems (Dark brown soils rich in organic matter)
Luvisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
40 to 50Agricultural 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.
