Land Use Data for Latitude -11.75 Longitude 33.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Mtangatanga and Perekezi Forest Reserves South Viphya Forest Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralismGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Crops
Beans DryCassava
Maize
Potatoes
Sugar Beets
Sweet potatoes & yams
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179180 to 209
Soil Types
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
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)
00 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 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.
