Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude 36.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Longido Game Controlled Area Longido Local Authority Forest Reserve |
Agricultural Land Uses
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestockSparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Sheep
Crops
BananasCoffee
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Pigeon Peas
Spices (forestry plantations only)
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Regosols (Other)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
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.
