Land Use Data for Latitude -0.25 Longitude 30.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Kasyoha: Kitomi Forest Reserve Kyambura Wildlife Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - PlantationsRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Mediterranean humidCool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasBeans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Maize
Roots tubers
Sweet Potatoes
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
270 to 299
300 to 329
above 360
Soil Types
AcrisolsAndosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
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)
Terrain
Plain 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)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
75 to 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.
