Land Use Data for Latitude 5.75 Longitude 37.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Nechisar National Park Nechisar National Park |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Barley
Cereals and cereal products
MIXED
Maize
Millet
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269270 to 299
Soil Types
AlisolsLeptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2%
Mountain > 2500
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 5050 to 250
above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
above 100Agricultural 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.
