Land Use Data for Latitude -3.25 Longitude 36.25

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

Locations

Burko Catchment Forest Reserve
Eluanata dam
Losiminguri Forest Reserve
Monduli Forest Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Shrubs - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Cereals and cereal products
Maize

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209

Soil Types

Andosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)
Chernozems (Black soils rich in organic matter)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50

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.