Land Use Data for Latitude 5.75 Longitude -0.25

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

Locations

Densu Delta Ramsar Site
Sakumo Lagoon Ramsar Site

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols
Unknown

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km²)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75

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.