Land Use Data for Latitude -5.75 Longitude 21.75

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

Locations

Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Roots tubers
Seed Cotton

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329

Soil 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 plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

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.