Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude 37.25

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park

Agricultural Land Uses

Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Sheep

Crops

Bananas
Fruits
Grain (dried)
Pigeon Peas

Growing Period (days)

150 to 179
180 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 plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 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.