Land Use Data for Latitude 6.25 Longitude 10.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry Forestry - Plantations Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsWarm Tropics humidWarm Tropics sub-humid LivestockCattleGoats Poultry Sheep CropsBananasBananas (also in forestry plantations) Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Growing Period (days)240 to 269270 to 299 Soil TypesAcrisolsAndosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes) Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Leptosols (Shallow soils) Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface) TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Slopes (degrees)2 to 55 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 Population Density (persons per km2)10 to 5050 to 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)50 to 75Agricultural 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. |