Land Use Data for Latitude 5.75 Longitude 10.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Mount Mbam |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasCoffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 25 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.
