Land Use Data for Latitude -29.25 Longitude 29.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Hlatikulu Nature Reserve Umgeni River Umgeni Vlei Nature Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Subtopical humidSubtropical drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
Maize
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179180 to 209
210 to 239
Soil Types
AcrisolsArenosols (Sandy)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Lixisols
Plinthosols
Regosols (Other)
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30
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 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.
