Land Use Data for Latitude -18.75 Longitude 44.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Bemamba Wetland Complex Manambolomaty wetland complex and Tsimembo Classified Forest |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Wetlands - Mangrove
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
CattlePigs
Poultry
Crops
BananasCoffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Growing Period (days)
150 to 179Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Lixisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 22 to 10
10 to 50
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.
