Land Use Data for Latitude -3.75 Longitude 35.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherCropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Agriculture in protected areas Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics drylands LivestockCattleGoats Sheep CropsBananas (also in forestry plantations)Cereals and cereal products Maize Growing Period (days)150 to 179180 to 209 210 to 239 Soil TypesAndosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)Leptosols (Shallow soils) Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface) Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter) Solonchaks (Saline) Solonetz (Alkali and sodic) Unknown 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 above 45 Population Density (persons per km2)2 to 1010 to 50 50 to 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)40 to 50Mineral 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. |