Land Use Data for Latitude -8.75 Longitude 30.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Sumbu National Park and Tondwa GMA |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Plantations
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Growing Period (days)
180 to 209Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
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.
