Land Use Data for Latitude 5.25 Longitude -4.25

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

Locations

Anguededou Classified Forest
Banco National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Oil Palm Fruit
Oil-bearing crops
Seed Cotton

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 100

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Akissi/AgbaleGold
Angovia (Surface)Gold

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.