Land Use Data for Latitude -13.75 Longitude 48.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Réserve Naturelle Intégrale de Tsaratanana Tsaratanana Strict Nature Reserve and surrounding areas |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Agro forestry
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics humidWarm Tropics sub-humid
Livestock
CattlePigs
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsCoffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239240 to 269
270 to 299
Soil Types
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
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)
50 to 75Agricultural 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.
