Land Use Data for Latitude -13.25 Longitude 49.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Andavakoera-Andrafiamena-Ambohiparaka |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryRainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsCoffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Sugar Cane
Sugar crops and sweeteners
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
Population Density (persons per km2)
0 to 22 to 10
10 to 50
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.
