Land Use Data for Latitude 4.75 Longitude 9.25

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

Locations

Mont Rata
Mount Rata and Rumpi Hills Forest Reserve
Mount Rata and Rumpi Hills Forest Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

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

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
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.