Land Use Data for Latitude 6.25 Longitude 37.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Gughe Mountains |
Agricultural Land Uses
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralismRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture - Large scale Irrigation (>25% pixel size)
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics humid
Warm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleGoats
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BarleyMaize
Millet
Growing Period (days)
240 to 269270 to 299
Soil Types
AlisolsFluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (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%
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)
50 to 250above 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.
