Land Use Data for Latitude -3.75 Longitude 37.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Agriculture in protected areas Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid LivestockCattleGoats Poultry Sheep CropsBananasCereals and cereal products Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Fruits Grain (dried) Groundnuts in Shell Maize Oil-bearing crops Pigeon Peas Growing Period (days)180 to 209210 to 239 240 to 269 Soil TypesCambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Histosols (Peat and muck soils) Luvisols Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface) Vertisols (Heavy clay) TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2% Mountain > 2500 Slopes (degrees)0.5 to 22 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 Population Density (persons per km2)02 to 10 10 to 50 50 to 250 above 250 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)40 to 5050 to 75 75 to 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. |