Land Use Data for Latitude 4.25 Longitude 29.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Garamba National Park |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherCropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Growing Period (days)
240 to 269Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
00 to 2
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.
