Land Use Data for Latitude 6.25 Longitude 80.25

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

Locations

Dediyagala Forest Reserve
Delgoda / Kudumiriya / Kobahadukanda
Dellawa / Diyadawa
Kanneliya Forest Reserve
Kanneliya Forest Reserve
Morapitiya-Runakanda
Nakiyadeniya / Kanneliya / Dediyagala
Sinharaja
Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Yagirala

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics perhumid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

330 to 359
above 360

Soil Types

Acrisols
Plinthosols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30
30 to 45
above 45

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

5 to 10
10 to 20
20 to 30

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.