Land Use Data for Latitude 34.25 Longitude 66.25

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Ghorat-Hazarajat alpine meadow ecoregion

Agricultural Land Uses

Sparsely vegetated areas - Extensive pastoralism
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Bare areas - Extensive pastoralism
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Boreal drylands
Deserts

Livestock

Cattle
Goats
Poultry
Sheep

Growing Period (days)

30 to 59

Soil Types

Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Rock Outcrop

Terrain

Mountain > 2500

Slopes (degrees)

8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

2 to 10
10 to 50

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

above 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.