Land Use Data for Latitude -27.25 Longitude 31.25

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Mahamba Mountain

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Urban land

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Regosols (Other)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 100

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.