Land Use Data for Latitude -18.75 Longitude 29.75

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

Locations

Sebakwe Poort

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Poultry

Crops

Groundnuts in Shell
Oil-bearing crops
Seed Cotton
Sunflower Seed

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149

Soil Types

Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
75 to 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.