Land Use Data for Latitude -16.25 Longitude 35.25Area 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 higherGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Crops
Beans DryGroundnuts in Shell
Maize
Pulses nes
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 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 plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250above 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.
