Land Use Data for Latitude 11.25 Longitude 76.25Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Amarambalam Reserved Forest: Nilambur Mukurthi National Park (Nilgiris) Silent Valley National Park Silent Valley National Park |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryForestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidLivestock
BuffaloesCattle
Goats
Crops
BananasCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
210 to 239Soil Types
Leptosols (Shallow soils)Luvisols
Nitisols (Deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with a clayey subsurface)
Plinthosols
Terrain
Plain or plateauMountain 800-1500 m, slope > 5%
Slopes (degrees)
2 to 55 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
30 to 4040 to 50
50 to 75
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.
