Land Use Data for Latitude -2.75 Longitude 40.25

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

Locations

Tana River Delta

Agricultural Land Uses

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

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Crops

Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)

Growing Period (days)

120 to 149
150 to 179

Soil Types

Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Luvisols
Phaeozems (Dark soils rich in organic matter)
Planosols
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2

Population Density (persons per km2)

0 to 2
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 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.