Land Use Data for Latitude -1.75 Longitude 31.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Lake Victoria: Bumbire Islands |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products
Maize
Growing Period (days)
270 to 299300 to 329
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Unknown
Terrain
Plain 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)
50 to 250above 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.
