Land Use Data for Latitude -1.75 Longitude 36.25

Locations

Lake Magadi

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Mediterranean humid
Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

Coffee
Spices (forestry plantations only)

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Andosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Planosols
Regosols (Other)
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)

Terrain

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

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km²)

2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75