Land Use Data for Latitude -1.25 Longitude 29.75

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

Locations

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Echuya Forest Reserve
Impenetrable (Bwindi) Forest Reserve
Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Nyamuriro swamp
Parc National des Volcans
Rugezi Marsh

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Roots tubers

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Acrisols
Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

75 to 100
above 100

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
NyamaliloTungsten

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.