Land Use Data for Latitude -0.75 Longitude 35.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Agriculture in protected areas EcosystemsMediterranean humidCool Tropic mixed Warm Tropics humid LivestockCattleGoats Pigs Poultry Sheep CropsCassavaCereals and cereal products Coffee Maize Oil-bearing crops Potatoes Roots tubers Sorghum Spices (forestry plantations only) Sunflower Seed Growing Period (days)270 to 299300 to 329 Soil TypesArenosols (Sandy)Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content) Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits) Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence) Luvisols Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface) Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter) Planosols TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2% Mountain > 2500 Slopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 Population Density (persons per km2)2 to 1010 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)50 to 75above 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. |