Land Use Data for Latitude 1.25 Longitude 34.75

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

Locations

Mount Elgon
Mount Elgon
Mount Elgon National Park
Mount Elgon National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Sheep

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269
270 to 299

Soil Types

Acrisols
Alisols
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75
75 to 100
above 100

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
West Pokot-Nickel Deposit-Kenya, AfricaNickel, Chromium

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.