Land Use Data for Latitude -3.25 Longitude 40.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Gede Ruins National Monument Malindi-Watamu Biosphere Reserve Mida Creek, Whale Island and the Malindi: Watamu coast Sabaki River Mouth |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattleGoats
Sheep
Crops
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)Growing Period (days)
150 to 179Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Planosols
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
75 to 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.
