Land Use Data for Latitude -27.25 Longitude 31.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Mahamba Mountain |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Urban land
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Growing Period (days)
150 to 179180 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 plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 50above 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.
