Land Use Data for Latitude 0.25 Longitude 29.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - PlantationsRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Agriculture in protected areas EcosystemsMediterranean humidWarm Tropics humid Warm Tropics sub-humid LivestockCattleGoats Pigs Poultry Sheep CropsBananasBananas (also in forestry plantations) Beans Dry Cassava Cereals and cereal products Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Grain (dried) Maize Rice Paddy Roots tubers Growing Period (days)240 to 269270 to 299 300 to 329 330 to 359 Soil TypesAndosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)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) 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% Slopes (degrees)2 to 55 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 Population Density (persons per km2)50 to 250above 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. |