Land Use Data for Latitude -25.25 Longitude 30.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Steenkampsberg Verloren Valei Provincial Nature Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - 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
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (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 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)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Regosols (Other)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain 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.
