Land Use Data for Latitude -17.75 Longitude 31.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Urban land EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics drylands LivestockCattleGoats Poultry CropsCereals and cereal productsMaize Oil-bearing crops Seed Cotton Growing Period (days)150 to 179Soil TypesArenosols (Sandy)Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content) Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Leptosols (Shallow soils) Luvisols TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Slopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 Population Density (persons per km2)10 to 5050 to 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)above 100Mineral Extraction
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. |