Land Use Data for Latitude 1.25 Longitude 43.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Boja swamps |
Agricultural Land Uses
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestockCropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattleGoats
Sheep
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsMaize
Growing Period (days)
60 to 89Soil Types
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)Solonetz (Alkali and sodic)
Vertisols (Heavy clay)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 2Population Density (persons per km2)
2 to 1010 to 50
50 to 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.
