Land Use Data for Latitude 7.25 Longitude 81.75

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

Locations

Ampara

Agricultural Land Uses

Grasslands - Mod. intensive pastoralism
Rainfed agriculture (Subsistence/Commercial)
Cropped Agriculture with mod. intensive livestock
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Agriculture in protected areas
Open Water - Inland Fisheries

Ecosystems

Warm Tropics sub-humid

Livestock

Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Poultry

Crops

Cereals and cereal products
Rice Paddy

Growing Period (days)

210 to 239
240 to 269

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Leptosols (Shallow soils)
Lixisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

0.5 to 2
2 to 5
5 to 8

Population Density (persons per km2)

50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

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.