Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 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 Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism EcosystemsWarm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands LivestockCattleGoats Sheep CropsBananasCereals and cereal products Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Fruits Grain (dried) Maize Pigeon Peas Growing Period (days)120 to 149150 to 179 180 to 209 Soil TypesAndosols (Black soils of volcanic landscapes)Cambisols (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) Leptosols (Shallow soils) 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 30 to 45 Population Density (persons per km2)00 to 2 2 to 10 10 to 50 50 to 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. |