Land Use Data for Latitude -0.75 Longitude 31.75

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

Locations

Musambwa islands
Sango Bay area

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cassava
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Maize
Roots tubers
Sweet Potatoes

Growing Period (days)

270 to 299
300 to 329

Soil Types

Alisols
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Podzols

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75

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.