Land Use Data for Latitude 11.25 Longitude 14.75

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

Locations

Logone flood-plain
Parc National de Waza
Waza National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Maize
Plantains
Yams

Growing Period (days)

90 to 119
120 to 149

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Planosols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0 to 0.5
0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
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.