Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude 29.25

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

Locations

Kibira National Park
Nyungwe National Park
Nyungwe National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Fruits
Maize
Potatoes
Roots tubers
Sorghum
Sweet Potatoes

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329

Soil Types

Alisols
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

75 to 100
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.