Land Use Data for Latitude 4.25 Longitude 18.75

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

Locations

Bangui

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Groundnuts in Shell
Oil-bearing crops
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Unknown

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50
above 250

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.