Land Use Data for Latitude -18.75 Longitude 32.75

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

Locations

Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic ecoregion
Stapleford Forest

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Maize

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Acrisols
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Lixisols
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%

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
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

75 to 100

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Chua River Placers (Placer)Gold
Makanga ProspectTantalum
Redwing/Old West Mines (Processing Plant)Gold, Silver
Redwing/Oldwest (Underground)Gold, Silver
Rezende (Underground)Gold

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.