Land Use Data for Latitude 5.75 Longitude 0.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Keta Lagoon Ramsar Site |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasBeans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Oats
Roots tubers
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
240 to 269
Soil Types
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Planosols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
50 to 7575 to 100
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.
