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Arboretum Lussich

Marcelo Campi · CC BY-SA 3.0

48% trees around it and 141 species recorded.

63Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km48%
  • wild within 10 km91%
  • species recorded141
  • Altitude82 m

The forest around

48% 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 77%Grassland 14%Bare ground 0%Built-up 9%Trees 45%Grassland 25%Wetland 5%Water 19%Bare ground 2%Built-up 4%Trees 22%Grassland 17%Wetland 2%Water 50%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 7%Trees 12%Grassland 21%Wetland 4%Water 52%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 8%48%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km77%
  • 1–3 km45%
  • 3–6 km22%
  • 6–10 km12%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees45%
  • Grassland25%
  • Wetland5%
  • Water19%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up4%

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

141 species recorded.

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

Parodia erinacea
Parodia erinaceaParodia erinacea6 recordsLemaire, Charles Antoine · Public domain
Jointed Pricklypear
Jointed PricklypearOpuntia aurantiaca6 recordsLes Tanner, North West Weeds, Australia · CC BY 3.0 us
Baccharis genistifolia
Baccharis genistifoliaBaccharis genistifolia5 recordsAndrés González · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chrysolaena flexuosa
Chrysolaena flexuosaChrysolaena flexuosa5 recordsUser:BotBln · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pleopeltis lepidopteris
Pleopeltis lepidopterisPleopeltis lepidopteris5 recordsLowe, E. J. · Public domain
Silver Wattle
Silver WattleAcacia dealbata4 recordsDonald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY 2.0
Schlechtendalia luzulifolia
Schlechtendalia luzulifoliaSchlechtendalia luzulifolia4 recordsAndrés González · CC BY 3.0
Zephyranthes tubispatha
Zephyranthes tubispathaZephyranthes tubispatha3 recordsMotohiro Sunouchi · CC BY 4.0
Australian cheesewood
Australian cheesewoodPittosporum undulatum3 recordsLouisa Anne Meredith · Public domain
Spear Thistle
Spear ThistleCirsium vulgare3 recordsSciadopitys from UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
Surinam cherry
Surinam cherryEugenia uniflora3 recordsBageense · CC BY-SA 4.0
Florida hopbush
Florida hopbushDodonaea viscosa3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

63out of 100

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

  • 48%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 91%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 141Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 82 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and from October to November.

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

  1. Jan25°19°97 mm
  2. Feb25°20°118 mm
  3. Mar23°18°117 mm
  4. Apr20°16°110 mm
  5. May17°13°91 mm
  6. Jun14°10°104 mm
  7. Jul13°8°96 mm
  8. Aug14°9°100 mm
  9. Sep15°10°98 mm
  10. Oct18°12°103 mm
  11. Nov21°15°93 mm
  12. Dec24°17°86 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Arboretum Lussich.

Arboretum

Arboretum Lussich is an arboretum in Uruguay.

Seen from space, 48% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 91% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

141 species have been recorded around it: 33 plants, 2 fungi, 106 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Parodia erinacea, Jointed Pricklypear and Baccharis genistifolia.

The best time to walk is from April to May and from October to November.

Arboretum Lussich (172196377)
Marcelo Campi · 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.

Arboretum Lussich 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

  • 8viewpoints within 5 kmPunta Ballena, Mirador Punta Ballena, Punta del Chileno and 5 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmCentro de Información Turística
  • 11car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Punta Ballena
  • 112places to stay within 10 kmTerrazas de la Laguna, Paradise Hotel, Brisas del Este and 109 more
  • 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts 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 Arboretum Lussich.

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.

Peakyas24 mountains within 25 km
Sierra de la Ballena7.0 kmCerro Colorado18 kmCerro del Toro20 kmCerro del Indio21 kmCerro San Antonio130 m · 22 kmCerro Pan de Azúcar389 m · 22 kmCerro Negro25 kmCerro de los Burros25 km
Coastya4 beaches within 10 km
Playa Portezuelo2.1 kmPlaya de la Gruta3.0 kmPlaya de las Delicias9.0 kmPlaya Honda9.8 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Laguna del Diario0.4 km² · 3.0 kmLaguna del Sauce38 km² · 6.4 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.

Adentrandoce en los jardínes- arboretum lussich
Giuliana Urbán · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aljibe-arboretum lussich
Giuliana Urbán · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arboretum Lussich
Basesta · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Arboretum Lussich

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  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 141Species

Rosaleda

Uruguay · 107 km

  • 31Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 212Species

See the guide

Prof. Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Garden

Uruguay · 106 km

  • 30Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 53%Wild
  • 186Species

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El Rosedal De Palermo

Argentina · 311 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 396Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q630438) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,970 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, Coastya, Lakeyas

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

The family

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