Land Use Data for Latitude -0.25 Longitude 29.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Agriculture in protected areas EcosystemsMediterranean humidCool Tropic mixed Warm Tropics sub-humid LivestockCattleGoats Pigs Poultry CropsBananasBananas (also in forestry plantations) Beans Dry Cassava Cereals and cereal products Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Grain (dried) Maize Roots tubers Growing Period (days)90 to 119240 to 269 270 to 299 300 to 329 330 to 359 above 360 Soil TypesAndosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)Calcisols (Substantial accumulation of secondary lime) Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Leptosols (Shallow soils) Luvisols Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface) Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter) Vertisols (Heavy clay) TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2% Mountain > 2500 Slopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 above 45 Population Density (persons per km2)0 to 210 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant 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. |