Land Use Data for Latitude -17.25 Longitude 25.25

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

Locations

Machile

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Groundnuts in Shell
Plantains
Roots tubers
Seed Cotton
Sugar Cane
Sunflower Seed

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
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.