Land Use Data for Latitude -4.75 Longitude 39.25

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Kisite island
Tanga North: Kibo saltpans

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Bananas
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Acrisols
Alisols
Arenosols (Sandy)
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
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Regosols (Other)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.