Land Use Data for Latitude -25.25 Longitude 30.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Plantations Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics drylands LivestockCattleGoats Pigs Sheep CropsBananas (also in forestry plantations)Beans Dry Cereals and cereal products Grain (dried) Maize Growing Period (days)90 to 119120 to 149 150 to 179 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) Leptosols (Shallow soils) Luvisols Regosols (Other) 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 above 45 Population Density (persons per km2)00 to 2 2 to 10 10 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)40 to 5050 to 75 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. |