Land Use Data for Latitude -0.25 Longitude 37.25

Locations

Mount Kenya Mount Kenya Mount Kenya Biosphere Reserve

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Mediterranean humid
Cool Tropic mixed
Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Pigs
Sheep

Crops

Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Stimulant crops
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Calcisols (Substantial accumulation of secondary lime)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Luvisols
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Regosols (Other)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau
Mountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45

Population Density (persons per km²)

0
0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

50 to 75