Land Use Data for Latitude 2.25 Longitude 30.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Lendu Plateau |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cassava
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
MIXED
Maize
Roots tubers
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
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
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 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.
