Land Use Data for Latitude 8.25 Longitude 13.75

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

Locations

Bénoué National Park
Parc National de la Benoue

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Groundnuts in Shell
Maize
Oil-bearing crops
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Taro (Coco Yam)

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

Lixisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 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.