Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude 37.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Amboseli National Park Amboseli National Park |
Agricultural Land Uses
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestockSparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands
Livestock
CattleGoats
Sheep
Crops
BananasFruits
Grain (dried)
Pigeon Peas
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179180 to 209
Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
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%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
50 to 75Agricultural 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.
