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Augustów Primeval Forest

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90% trees around it and 93 species recorded.

79Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km90%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded93
  • Altitude116 m

The forest around

90% 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 72%Grassland 2%Water 25%Trees 92%Grassland 4%Wetland 0%Water 3%Trees 88%Grassland 9%Water 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 87%Grassland 9%Water 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%90%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km72%
  • 1–3 km92%
  • 3–6 km88%
  • 6–10 km87%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees92%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water3%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

93 species recorded.

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

Carex globularis
Carex globularisCarex globularis7 recordsRafał Zarzecki · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common bugloss
Common buglossAnchusa officinalis4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blister sedge
Blister sedgeCarex vesicaria3 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lesser Twayblade
Lesser TwaybladeNeottia cordata3 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Bog orchid
Bog orchidHammarbya paludosa3 recordsOrchi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh crane’s-bill
Marsh crane’s-billGeranium palustre3 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bouncingbet
BouncingbetSaponaria officinalis3 recordsImg · Public domain
Stag's-horn Clubmoss
Stag's-horn ClubmossLycopodium clavatum2 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Sedge
Common SedgeCarex nigra2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Thommybe assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garden yellow loosestrife
Garden yellow loosestrifeLysimachia vulgaris2 recordsLe.Loup.Gris · CC BY-SA 3.0
True lover's knot
True lover's knotParis quadrifolia2 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · Public domain

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

79out of 100

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

  • 90%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 93Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 116 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-8°49 mm
  2. Feb-1°-8°40 mm
  3. Mar4°-4°41 mm
  4. Apr12°2°40 mm
  5. May18°8°70 mm
  6. Jun21°11°77 mm
  7. Jul24°14°93 mm
  8. Aug23°13°82 mm
  9. Sep18°8°55 mm
  10. Oct10°3°60 mm
  11. Nov4°0°51 mm
  12. Dec0°-5°49 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Augustów Primeval Forest.

Large virgin forest complex located in Poland, as well as in northern Belarus and southeastern Lithuania

Augustów Primeval Forest is a forest in Belarus.

Seen from space, 90% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

93 species have been recorded around it: 14 plants, 1 fungi, 72 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Carex globularis, Common bugloss and Blister sedge.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Jeziorko dystroficzne w Puszczy Augustowskiej koło Stękowizny (1)
Lesnydzban · CC BY 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.

Augustów Primeval Forest 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmVeisiejai-Augustavas, Danowskie - Tobołowo - Sarnetki
  • 60named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 12picnic sites within 4 km
  • 12shelters and huts within 6 kmMOR Uroczysko Podlipki and 11 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmMostek Dowgirda
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmCentrum Informacji Turystycznej
  • 34campsites within 10 kmPTTK Jałowy Róg, Brożane, Biwak and 31 more
  • 71places to stay within 10 kmCzilchata, Galikowo, Domek Serwy and 68 more
  • car parks within 3 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Augustów Primeval Forest.

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.

Lakeyas9 lakes within 15 km
Mikaszewo1.2 km² · 0.2 kmPaniewo0.4 km² · 3.5 kmPobojno Lake0.2 km² · 5.1 kmOrle Lake0.3 km² · 5.5 kmJezioro Brożane0.4 km² · 7.2 kmSerwy4.0 km² · 9.0 kmSzlamy0.8 km² · 11 kmStudzieniczne Lake2.2 km² · 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Wigry National Park108 species · 23 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.

20211030 140223 October 2021 in Augustów
Rakoon · CC0
20211030 140230 October 2021 in Augustów
Rakoon · CC0
Jeziorko dystroficzne w Puszczy Augustowskiej koło Stękowizny (2)
Lesnydzban · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Augustów Primeval Forest

Belarus

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 93Species

Knyszyn Forest

Poland · 75 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 217Species

See the guide

Hrodzenskaja pušča

Belarus · 66 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 122Species

See the guide

Puszcza Borecka

Poland · 85 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 138Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2590340) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species555 open records within 5 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 atlasesLakeyas, Birdyas

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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