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Árbol del Tule

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13% trees around it and 164 species recorded.

34Forestyas Score

Notable treeMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km13%
  • wild within 10 km68%
  • species recorded164
  • Altitude1,559 m

The forest around

13% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 8%Shrubland 1%Grassland 8%Cropland 34%Built-up 49%Trees 14%Shrubland 13%Grassland 18%Bare ground 0%Cropland 41%Built-up 14%Trees 42%Shrubland 12%Grassland 15%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 16%Built-up 14%Trees 46%Shrubland 8%Grassland 16%Cropland 13%Built-up 17%13%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km8%
  • 1–3 km14%
  • 3–6 km42%
  • 6–10 km46%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees14%
  • Shrubland13%
  • Grassland18%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland41%
  • Built-up14%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

164 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Montezuma Bald Cypress
Montezuma Bald CypressTaxodium mucronatum19 recordsUser:Gengiskanhg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pascuita
PascuitaEuphorbia leucocephala3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Boton de oro
Boton de oroMelampodium divaricatum3 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tree tobacco
Tree tobaccoNicotiana glauca2 recordsMiwasatoshi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Potatotree
PotatotreeSolanum erianthum2 recordsFrancisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain
Crested anoda
Crested anodaAnoda cristata2 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Castor oil plant
Castor oil plantRicinus communis2 recordsNolege · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cnidoscolus tubulosusCnidoscolus tubulosus5 records
Peruvian ZinniaZinnia peruviana4 records
Echinopepon pubescensEchinopepon pubescens3 records
NT
Bursera bifloraBursera biflora3 records
Bursera schlechtendaliiBursera schlechtendalii3 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

34out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 13%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 68%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 164Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,559 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from November to December.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan22°6°7 mm
  2. Feb24°8°6 mm
  3. Mar27°9°13 mm
  4. Apr29°12°32 mm
  5. May27°13°73 mm
  6. Jun23°13°198 mm
  7. Jul22°12°151 mm
  8. Aug22°12°169 mm
  9. Sep21°12°203 mm
  10. Oct21°11°100 mm
  11. Nov20°8°18 mm
  12. Dec21°7°8 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Árbol del Tule.

Mexican tree with the stoutest trunk in the world

Árbol del Tule is a notable tree in Mexico, 1,559 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 13% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 68% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

164 species have been recorded around it: 19 plants, 0 fungi, 145 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Montezuma Bald Cypress, Pascuita and Boton de oro.

The best time to walk is from November to December.

Árbol-del-Tule-Oaxaca-Mexico
User:Gengiskanhg · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Árbol del Tule seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmÁrbol del Tule
  • 5shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmOverlander Oasis, El Rancho RV Park, Campground OaxacaView and 2 more
  • 275places to stay within 10 kmEl Diablo y la Sandía, Las Mariposas, Parador del Dominico and 272 more
  • 11restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Árbol del Tule.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas68 mountains within 25 km
Cerro del Fortín11 kmCerro del León12 kmCerro Yalina16 kmLoma Yaniche18 kmCerro Tanilín21 kmCerro La Piedra del Sol23 kmMesa Caballito Blanco24 kmCerro Las Comadres24 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

ArbordeTuleOaxaca MX
Nsaum75 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arbol de Tule - panoramio
ben_kitchener3 · CC BY 3.0
Arbol del Tule, Mexico (7413722476)
Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Árbol del Tule

Mexico

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 164Species

Chimalapas montane forests

Mexico · 235 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 1Species

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Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests

Mexico · 393 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 155Species

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Chapultepec

Mexico · 377 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 24%Wild
  • 1,010Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q252182) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,632 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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