Land Use Data for Latitude -16.25 Longitude 35.25

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

Locations

Mount Chiperone
Thyolo Mountain Forest Reserve
Thyolo tea estates

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Beans Dry
Groundnuts in Shell
Maize
Pulses nes

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 100

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.