Land Use Data for Latitude -12.75 Longitude 49.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Analamera Special Reserve Ankarana Special Reserve Montagne d'Ambre National Park and Special Reserve Parc National de la Montagne d'Ambre Réserve Spéciale Ankarana |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
CattleGoats
Pigs
Poultry
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsCoffee Green
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Roots tubers
Vanilla
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209Soil Types
Calcisols (Substantial accumulation of secondary lime)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Gleysols (Soils with clear signs of groundwater influence)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Luvisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (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
50 to 250
above 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.
