Land Use Data for Latitude -14.75 Longitude 49.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations
Agricultural Land UsesForestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higherForestry - Plantations Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial) Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism EcosystemsCool Tropic mixedWarm Tropics perhumid LivestockCattlePigs Poultry CropsCereals and cereal productsCoffee Green Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations) Maize Rice Paddy Stimulant crops Sugar Cane Sugar crops and sweeteners Growing Period (days)330 to 359Soil TypesCambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides) Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence) TerrainPlain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5% Mountain 1500-2500 m, slope > 2% Slopes (degrees)2 to 55 to 8 8 to 16 16 to 30 30 to 45 above 45 Population Density (persons per km2)2 to 1010 to 50 Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)50 to 7575 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. |