Land Use Data for Latitude -18.75 Longitude 16.25

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

Locations

Etosha Pan halophytics ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Millet

Growing Period (days)

60 to 89
90 to 119

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50

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.