Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude 37.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesCropped Agriculture with intensive livestockSparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsWarm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands LivestockCattleGoats Sheep CropsBananasFruits Grain (dried) Pigeon Peas Growing Period (days)150 to 179180 to 209 Soil TypesArenosols (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) TerrainPlain 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. |