Land Use Data for Latitude -16.75 Longitude 27.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Nkanga river conservation area |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Crops
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)Groundnuts in Shell
Seed Cotton
Sunflower Seed
Growing Period (days)
120 to 149Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Luvisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0 to 0.50.5 to 2
2 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
50 to 75Agricultural 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.
