Land Use Data for Latitude 7.75 Longitude 79.75

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

Locations

Anaiwilundawa complex
Mundel Lake
Periyakadawela

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid
Warm Tropics drylands

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Coffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

10 to 20

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.