Land Use Data for Latitude -0.75 Longitude 36.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Lake Naivasha |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - 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 humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasBananas (also in forestry plantations)
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Grain (dried)
Pigeon Peas
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 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 plateauMountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
02 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
40 to 5050 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.
