Land Use Data for Latitude 7.75 Longitude 79.75Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude Locations |
| Anaiwilundawa complex Mundel Lake Periyakadawela |
Agricultural Land Uses
Forestry - Agro forestryGrasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Ecosystems
Warm Tropics sub-humidWarm Tropics drylands
Livestock
BuffaloesCattle
Crops
Cereals and cereal productsCoffee Green (also in forestry plantations)
Rice Paddy
Growing Period (days)
180 to 209210 to 239
Soil Types
Arenosols (Sandy)Ferralsols (Red and yellow tropical soils with a high content of sesquioxides)
Luvisols
Terrain
Plain or plateauSlopes (degrees)
0.5 to 22 to 5
Population Density (persons per km2)
10 to 50above 250
Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)
10 to 20Agricultural 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.
