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Aswan Botanical Garden

Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0

6% trees around it and 197 species recorded.

44Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km6%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded197
  • Altitude106 m

The forest around

6% 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 9%Shrubland 2%Water 40%Bare ground 35%Built-up 14%Trees 5%Shrubland 1%Water 9%Bare ground 47%Cropland 1%Built-up 37%Trees 4%Shrubland 1%Grassland 0%Water 4%Bare ground 75%Cropland 1%Built-up 15%Trees 2%Shrubland 0%Water 5%Bare ground 89%Cropland 0%Built-up 3%6%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km9%
  • 1–3 km5%
  • 3–6 km4%
  • 6–10 km2%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees5%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Water9%
  • Bare ground47%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up37%

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

197 species recorded.

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

Roostertree
RoostertreeCalotropis procera16 recordsWilfredo Rodríguez · CC0
Nightshade
NightshadeSolanum incanum8 recordsNepenthes · CC BY-SA 3.0
Butterfly pea
Butterfly peaClitoria ternatea5 recordsSuyash.dwivedi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mimosa pigra
Mimosa pigraMimosa pigra4 recordsWibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Date palm
Date palmPhoenix dactylifera3 recordsEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0
Common Mediterranean grass
Common Mediterranean grassSchismus barbatus2 recordsPompilid · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mexican poppy
Mexican poppyArgemone mexicana2 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Euphorbia hirta
Euphorbia hirtaEuphorbia hirta2 recordsJuan Carlos Fonseca Mata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nandi Flame
Nandi FlameSpathodea campanulata2 recordsSteven Haw · CC BY 2.0
Umbrella thorn
Umbrella thornVachellia tortilis2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Euploca ovalifoliaEuploca ovalifolia9 records
Stipagrostis vulneransStipagrostis vulnerans4 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

44out of 100

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

  • 6%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 197Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 106 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in January.

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

  1. Jan23°7°0 mm
  2. Feb26°9°0 mm
  3. Mar31°13°0 mm
  4. Apr36°18°0 mm
  5. May40°22°0 mm
  6. Jun42°24°0 mm
  7. Jul42°26°0 mm
  8. Aug43°26°0 mm
  9. Sep41°23°0 mm
  10. Oct37°20°0 mm
  11. Nov30°14°0 mm
  12. Dec25°9°0 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Aswan Botanical Garden.

Park in Egypt

Aswan Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Egypt.

Seen from space, 6% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

197 species have been recorded around it: 17 plants, 0 fungi, 173 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Roostertree, Nightshade and Butterfly pea.

The best time to walk is in January.

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Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • آدامز هوم أسوانcampsite · 8.7 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Mövenpick Resort Aswanplace to stay · 0.5 km · 96 within 10 km
  • Aswānnearest town · 1.3 km in a straight line
  • Aswan International Airport (ASW)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire at ASW airport (Aswan)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Aswan Botanical Garden 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 kmشجرة سنط
  • 5shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 11viewpoints within 5 kmNubian Village, Nile Valley Viewpoint, Aussichtsrestaurant and 8 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmآدامز هوم أسوان
  • 96places to stay within 10 kmMövenpick Resort Aswan, El-Amin Guest House, إزيس بيراميزا كورنيش and 93 more
  • 64restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Aswan Botanical Garden.

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.

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Qubbet el-Hawa0.8 kmGebel Tingar2.1 kmJabal al Ju‘lāb2.9 kmJabal al Jirānīt5.4 kmJabal al Kammāshah15 kmJabal Mālik16 kmJabal Dūshī18 kmKulet Umm Tiheiwât24 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Nile6,650 km · 2,830 m³/sValley of the QueensGucha RiverCapritage HelwanWadi Degla

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Aswan Kitchener Island R01
Marc Ryckaert ( MJJR ) · CC BY 3.0
Aswan Kitchener Island R02
Marc Ryckaert ( MJJR ) · CC BY 3.0
Aswan Botanical Garden 01
Olaf Tausch · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Aswan Botanical Garden

Egypt

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 6%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 197Species

Botanical garden of Thutmosis III

Egypt · 182 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 120Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q31844053) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,960 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, Riveryas

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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