Land Use Data for Latitude 13.25 Longitude 77.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Nandi Hills |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Urban land
Bare areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics drylandsLivestock
BuffaloesCattle
Poultry
Sheep
Crops
BananasCereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Maize
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
120 to 149150 to 179
Soil Types
LuvisolsNitisols (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
Population Density (persons per km2)
50 to 250above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
40 to 5050 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.
