Taiwan forest
Basianshan National Forest Recreation Area
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96% trees around it and 391 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km96%
- wild within 10 km100%
- species recorded391
- Altitude907 m
The forest around
96% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km97%
- 1–3 km95%
- 3–6 km97%
- 6–10 km96%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees95%
- Grassland3%
- Bare ground0%
- Built-up1%
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
391 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 391Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 907 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from February to March and in November.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan7°75 mm
- Feb8°69 mm
- Mar9°99 mm
- Apr12°114 mm
- May16°261 mm
- Jun17°295 mm
- Jul18°210 mm
- Aug18°327 mm
- Sep17°287 mm
- Oct14°130 mm
- Nov12°106 mm
- Dec8°72 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Basianshan National Forest Recreation Area.
Forest in Taichung
Basianshan National Forest Recreation Area is a forest in Taiwan, 907 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
391 species have been recorded around it: 191 plants, 9 fungi, 182 birds and 9 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Tropical crabgrass, Ring-cup oak and Violet crabgrass.
The best time to walk is from February to March and in November.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- 八起露營區campsite · 1.7 km · 8 within 10 km
- 八仙山莊place to stay · 0.1 km · 21 within 10 km
- Taichung International Airport / Ching Chuang Kang Air Base (RMQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 41 km in a straight lineCar hire in TaipeiDiscover 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 11marked trails within 5 km鳶嘴稍來山步道, 八仙山主峰步道, 德芙蘭生態步道 and 8 more
- 2named and notable trees within 6 km德芙蘭名樹, 八壯士樹
- 26shelters and huts within 6 km涼亭, 0.9K涼亭, 工寮 and 23 more
- 6viewpoints within 5 km觀景台 and 5 more
- 1visitor centres within 6 km八仙山森林遊樂區遊客服務中心
- 9car parks within 3 km
- 8campsites within 10 km八起露營區, 365露營區, 工寮營地 and 5 more
- 21places to stay within 10 km八仙山莊, 小木屋區, 伊豆溫泉飯店 and 18 more
- 23restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Basianshan National Forest Recreation Area.
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.
Peakyas173 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Basianshan National Forest Recreation Area
Taiwan
- 84Forestyas Score
- 96%Trees
- 100%Wild
- 391Species
Wuling National Forest Recreation Area
Taiwan · 36 km
- 86Forestyas Score
- 96%Trees
- 99%Wild
- 618Species
Aowanda National Forest Recreation Area
Taiwan · 31 km
- 84Forestyas Score
- 91%Trees
- 99%Wild
- 395Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q10891932) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 47,246 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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