Land Use Data for Latitude -30.75 Longitude 29.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry Forestry - Plantations Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation EcosystemsSubtopical humidSubtropical drylands LivestockCattleGoats Poultry Sheep CropsBananas (also in forestry plantations)Beans Dry Cereals and cereal products Grain (dried) Maize Growing Period (days)180 to 209Soil TypesAcrisolsArenosols (Sandy) Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Leptosols (Shallow soils) Plinthosols Regosols (Other) Solonetz (Alkali and sodic) TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2% Slopes (degrees)2 to 55 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 Population Density (persons per km2)00 to 2 2 to 10 10 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)50 to 75Mineral Extraction
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. |