Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude 29.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics humid Warm Tropics sub-humid LivestockCattleGoats Pigs Sheep CropsBananasBananas (also in forestry plantations) Cereals and cereal products Fruits Maize Potatoes Roots tubers Sorghum Sweet Potatoes Sweet potatoes & yams Growing Period (days)240 to 269270 to 299 300 to 329 Soil TypesCambisols (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) Histosols (Peat and muck soils) Leptosols (Shallow soils) TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2% Slopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 Population Density (persons per km2)above 250Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)above 100Agricultural 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. |