Land Use Data for Latitude -5.75 Longitude 21.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Crops
Beans DryCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Roots tubers
Seed Cotton
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 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 plateauSlopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 50Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
above 100Agricultural 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.
