Land Use Data for Latitude 2.25 Longitude 30.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - 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 EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics humid LivestockCattleGoats Pigs Poultry CropsBananasBananas (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 TypesArenosols (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) 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 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. |