Land Use Data for Latitude 1.25 Longitude 7.25

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

Locations

Tinhosas islands

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid

Livestock

Cattle
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cassava
Fruits
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

330 to 359

Soil Types

Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 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.