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Atocha-La Liria Botanical Garden

Burkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0

21% trees around it and 94 species recorded.

43Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km21%
  • wild within 10 km76%
  • species recorded94
  • Altitude2,603 m

The forest around

21% 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 7%Shrubland 3%Grassland 3%Built-up 87%Trees 23%Shrubland 5%Grassland 12%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 59%Trees 15%Shrubland 6%Grassland 45%Bare ground 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 26%Trees 18%Shrubland 11%Grassland 56%Bare ground 0%Cropland 8%Built-up 7%21%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km7%
  • 1–3 km23%
  • 3–6 km15%
  • 6–10 km18%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees23%
  • Shrubland5%
  • Grassland12%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up59%

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

94 species recorded.

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

Passiflora tripartita
Passiflora tripartitaPassiflora tripartita9 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rumex spinosus
Rumex spinosusRumex spinosus7 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aztec tobacco
Aztec tobaccoNicotiana rustica7 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Borzicactus sepium
Borzicactus sepiumBorzicactus sepium7 recordsBrendan Black · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rescuegrass
RescuegrassBromus catharticus6 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Ragged evening primrose
Ragged evening primroseOenothera laciniata4 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Ffaarr assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blue chamomile
Blue chamomileMatricaria chamomilla4 recordsRob Hille · Public domain
Annual Meadow Grass
Annual Meadow GrassPoa annua3 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 10:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Thorn-apple
Thorn-appleDatura stramonium3 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Verdolaga
VerdolagaPortulaca oleracea3 recordsZooFari · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common iceplant
Common iceplantMesembryanthemum crystallinum3 recordsYummifruitbat · CC BY-SA 4.0
Large field Speedwell
Large field SpeedwellVeronica persica3 recordsStrobilomyces · CC BY-SA 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.

43out of 100

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

  • 21%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 76%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 94Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 2,603 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from August to September.

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

  1. Jan17°7°124 mm
  2. Feb16°7°141 mm
  3. Mar16°7°159 mm
  4. Apr16°7°160 mm
  5. May16°7°119 mm
  6. Jun16°6°85 mm
  7. Jul16°5°65 mm
  8. Aug16°5°53 mm
  9. Sep17°6°52 mm
  10. Oct17°6°92 mm
  11. Nov17°7°101 mm
  12. Dec16°7°104 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Atocha-La Liria Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Ecuador

Atocha-La Liria Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Ecuador, 2,603 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 21% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 76% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

94 species have been recorded around it: 47 plants, 3 fungi, 43 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Passiflora tripartita, Rumex spinosus and Aztec tobacco.

The best time to walk is from August to September.

Atocha-La Liria Botanical Garden, 2020
Burkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Atocha-La Liria 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

  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmdeposito de madera, cpli
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 kmFregador, Información Parque de la Familia and 2 more
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmMirador Parque de la Familia, Mirador de la Península, Monumento a la Primera Imprenta and 1 more
  • 87car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmRelleno sanitario, Centro Turistico Quillan, Patio de maquinarias del GAD municipal
  • 85places to stay within 10 kmHotel, hostal, Hotel Royal and 82 more
  • 254restaurants 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 Atocha-La Liria 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.

Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Inapisí3.4 kmSagoatoa12 kmHuicotango15 kmJosefo18 kmTzunantza18 kmPuñalica19 kmCarihuairazo volcano5,018 m · volcano · 24 kmMulmul24 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.

Jardín Botánico Atocha - La Liria 2014
Laliria2014 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jardín Botánico de Ambato
Laliria2014 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jardín Botánico Atocha - La Liria 2020
Burkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Atocha-La Liria Botanical Garden

Ecuador

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 94Species

Quito Botanical Gardens

Ecuador · 118 km

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 58%Wild
  • 280Species

See the guide

Botanical garden of Portoviejo

Ecuador · 205 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 101Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5926743) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species791 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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