Land Use Data for Latitude 9.25 Longitude 38.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Berga floodplain Chilimo forest |
Agricultural Land Uses
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralismCropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Ecosystems
Cool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattleSheep
Crops
BarleyCereals and cereal products
MIXED
Millet
Wheat
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239Soil Types
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%
Mountain > 2500
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 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.
