Land Use Data for Latitude -0.25 Longitude 36.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid LivestockCattleGoats Poultry Sheep CropsBananasBananas (also in forestry plantations) Cereals and cereal products Coffee Maize Potatoes Roots tubers Spices (forestry plantations only) Stimulant crops Wheat Growing Period (days)210 to 239240 to 269 270 to 299 Soil TypesCambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Leptosols (Shallow soils) Luvisols Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface) Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter) Planosols Solonetz (Alkali and sodic) TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2% Slopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 Population Density (persons per km2)0 to 22 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. |