Land Use Data for Latitude -15.75 Longitude 35.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherGrasslands - Extensive pastoralism Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Agriculture in protected areas Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsWarm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands LivestockCattleGoats Poultry CropsBananas (also in forestry plantations)Beans Dry Cereals and cereal products Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Grain (dried) Maize Growing Period (days)150 to 179180 to 209 Soil TypesArenosols (Sandy)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits) Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface) Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter) Vertisols (Heavy clay) Unknown TerrainPlain or plateauSlopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 Population Density (persons per km2)2 to 1010 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)above 100Mineral Extraction
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. |