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Boří Les

RomanM82 · CC BY-SA 4.0

70% trees around it and 980 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km70%
  • wild within 10 km41%
  • species recorded980
  • Altitude188 m

The forest around

70% 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 88%Grassland 11%Cropland 1%Trees 67%Grassland 8%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 18%Built-up 6%Trees 30%Grassland 18%Wetland 0%Water 3%Cropland 40%Built-up 8%Trees 16%Grassland 13%Wetland 0%Water 2%Cropland 66%Built-up 3%70%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km88%
  • 1–3 km67%
  • 3–6 km30%
  • 6–10 km16%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees67%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland18%
  • Built-up6%

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

980 species recorded.

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

Fine-leaved Water-dropwort
Fine-leaved Water-dropwortOenanthe aquatica59 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pale persicaria
Pale persicariaPersicaria lapathifolia57 recordsHardyplants at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea49 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Golden dock
Golden dockRumex maritimus48 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias46 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Brown Galingale
Brown GalingaleCyperus fuscus42 recordsUser:Fice · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh crowfoot
Marsh crowfootRanunculus sceleratus41 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense41 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata38 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Brook Pimpernel
Brook PimpernelVeronica anagallis-aquatica38 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mugwort
MugwortArtemisia vulgaris37 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Turkey Oak
Turkey OakQuercus cerris33 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · 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.

61out of 100

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

  • 70%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 41%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 980Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 188 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and in September.

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

  1. Jan1°-5°42 mm
  2. Feb4°-4°36 mm
  3. Mar9°-1°40 mm
  4. Apr16°4°35 mm
  5. May21°9°65 mm
  6. Jun25°14°66 mm
  7. Jul28°16°68 mm
  8. Aug27°15°65 mm
  9. Sep21°10°64 mm
  10. Oct15°5°46 mm
  11. Nov8°1°42 mm
  12. Dec2°-4°41 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Boří Les.

Forest in Czech Republic

Boří Les is a forest in Czechia.

Seen from space, 70% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 41% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

980 species have been recorded around it: 723 plants, 32 fungi, 218 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Fine-leaved Water-dropwort, Pale persicaria and Ground-ivy.

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

Lednicko-valtický areál - Boří les obr07
RomanM82 · 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.

Boří Les 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

  • 12marked trails within 5 km[M] Mikulov - Rendezvous, [Z] Lednice - Pod Bořím dvorem, Naučná stezka Lužní les and 9 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmGoldregen, die Winterlinde
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 47shelters and huts within 6 kmČekárna and 46 more
  • 3viewpoints within 5 kmWeingartlhöhe
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmTuristické informační centrum, Turistické informační centrum Břeclav, informační centrum lázeňská kolonáda and 1 more
  • 44car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmFrantiškův Rybník, Autokemp Apollo, Hippoclub Lednice and 4 more
  • 67places to stay within 10 kmHotel Celnice, Siesta, IMOS and 64 more
  • 9restaurants 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 Boří Les.

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.

Peakyas108 mountains within 25 km
Schweinbarther Berg337 m · 16 kmDürrenberg381 m · 17 kmTabulová hora459 m · 17 kmGalgenberg425 m · 18 kmDěvín550 m · 19 kmJungfrauföhren402 m · 20 kmHeidberg420 m · 20 kmKobylí vrch334 m · 21 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Adamovské jazerá0.3 km² · 15 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Minaret in Lednice7.7 kmMaják (rozhledna)14 kmDalibor15 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Lednické rybníky250 species · 4.8 kmMarch-Thaya-Auen212 species · 13 kmHovoransko - Čejkovicko119 species · 22 kmStřední nádrž vodního díla Nové Mlýny241 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.

Lednicko-valtický areál - Boří les obr01
RomanM82 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Valtice 4569
Karl Gruber · CC BY-SA 3.0
20. rota 4. brigády Pohraniční stráže Boří Dvůr 02
Doronenko · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Boří Les

Czechia

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 41%Wild
  • 980Species

Bratislavský lesný park

Slovakia · 63 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 840Species

See the guide

Ždánice Forest

Czechia · 43 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 616Species

See the guide

Vienna Woods

Austria · 99 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 353Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q23821168) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species42,908 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 atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Viewyas, 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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