Land Use Data for Latitude 7.75 Longitude 80.75

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

Locations

Sigiriya
Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests ecoregion
Wasgomuwa

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Agro forestry
Forestry - Plantations
Grasslands - Extensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Grasslands - Intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Mixture crops- moderate livestock and large scale irrigation
Agriculture in protected areas

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats

Crops

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

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209
210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
8 to 16

Population Density (persons per km2)

10 to 50
50 to 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5
10 to 20
20 to 30

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
CeylonThorium, Rhodium
Kahatagaha-KolongahaGraphite
Ragedera (Underground)Graphite

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.