Land Use Data for Latitude -12.75 Longitude 34.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - PlantationsGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Maize
Pulses nes
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)Plinthosols
Unknown
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250Infant 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.
