Land Use Data for Latitude -0.75 Longitude 36.25

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

Locations

Lake Naivasha

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Mediterranean humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Pigeon Peas

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Andosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)
Luvisols
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)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
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

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

40 to 50
50 to 75

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.