Land Use Data for Latitude -2.25 Longitude 40.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Tana River Forests |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Sheep
Crops
Bananas (also in forestry plantations)Growing Period (days)
90 to 119120 to 149
Soil Types
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Planosols
Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0 to 0.50.5 to 2
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 22 to 10
10 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.
