Land Use Data for Latitude 14.25 Longitude 33.25

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

Locations

Gezira

Agricultural Land Uses

Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Sheep

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

1 to 29
30 to 59

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Unknown

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50

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.