Land Use Data for Latitude -16.75 Longitude 37.75

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

Locations

Map

Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Pigs
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)
Beans Dry
Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Roots tubers
Seed Cotton

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239

Soil Types

Acrisols
Arenosols (Sandy)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km²)

10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 100

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.