Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude 29.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Akanyaru wetlands |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Sheep
Crops
BananasBananas (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 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)
Histosols (Peat and muck soils)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Terrain
Plain 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.
