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Bosquecillo de Pura Pura

Keldapao · CC BY-SA 4.0

11% trees around it and 553 species recorded.

34Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km11%
  • wild within 10 km57%
  • species recorded553
  • Altitude3,890 m

The forest around

11% 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 50%Shrubland 1%Grassland 12%Bare ground 3%Built-up 34%Trees 6%Shrubland 0%Grassland 14%Bare ground 5%Built-up 75%Trees 1%Grassland 41%Bare ground 4%Cropland 0%Built-up 54%Trees 1%Grassland 54%Bare ground 11%Cropland 0%Built-up 34%11%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km50%
  • 1–3 km6%
  • 3–6 km1%
  • 6–10 km1%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees6%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland14%
  • Bare ground5%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up75%

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

553 species recorded.

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

Peanut
PeanutArachis hypogaea121 recordsMunkaila Sulemana · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spanish broom
Spanish broomSpartium junceum20 recordsA. Barra · CC BY 3.0
Tree tobacco
Tree tobaccoNicotiana glauca18 recordsMiwasatoshi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Radium weed
Radium weedEuphorbia peplus18 recordsSteve1nova · Public domain
Urtica echinata
Urtica echinataUrtica echinata18 recordsGregory Anthony Pauca Tanco · CC BY 4.0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens13 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Toothed Medick
Toothed MedickMedicago polymorpha12 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Solanum brevicaule
Solanum brevicauleSolanum brevicaule12 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Conium maculatum
Conium maculatumConium maculatum10 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tropaeolum seemanniiTropaeolum seemannii22 records
Poa calchaquiensisPoa calchaquiensis20 records
Mutisia ledifoliaMutisia ledifolia17 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

34out of 100

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

  • 11%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 57%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 553Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 3,890 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and from October to November.

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

  1. Jan14°3°136 mm
  2. Feb14°3°114 mm
  3. Mar14°3°79 mm
  4. Apr14°2°35 mm
  5. May14°-1°13 mm
  6. Jun13°-2°9 mm
  7. Jul13°-2°16 mm
  8. Aug14°-2°22 mm
  9. Sep14°0°24 mm
  10. Oct15°2°48 mm
  11. Nov16°3°44 mm
  12. Dec15°4°107 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bosquecillo de Pura Pura.

Bosquecillo de Pura Pura is a forest in Bolivia, 3,890 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 11% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 57% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

553 species have been recorded around it: 414 plants, 18 fungi, 119 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Peanut, Spanish broom and Tree tobacco.

The best time to walk is in May and from October to November.

Bosque de aucalipto en el Area Protegida Pura Pura
Keldapao · 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.

Bosquecillo de Pura Pura 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 kmQueñua
  • 3picnic sites within 4 kmÁrea Picnic
  • 115shelters and huts within 6 kmPumaKatari - The Strongest, PumaKatari - Bolívar and 113 more
  • 38viewpoints within 5 kmMirador Jacha Kollo, Mirador Killi Killi, Mirador PUC and 35 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmInformaciones, Información Turística, La Fuente and 1 more
  • 68car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCRUZ
  • 360places to stay within 10 kmAlojamiento Brissa, Hotel Continental, Hotel Rosario La Paz and 357 more
  • 393restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Bosquecillo de Pura Pura.

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.

Peakyas36 mountains within 25 km
Chacaltaya5,421 m · 14 kmCh'iyar Qirini5,363 m · 16 kmQutapata (Murillo)5,288 m · 21 kmPico Jampaturi5,271 m · 21 kmImilla Apachita5,184 m · 22 kmJathi Qullu5,421 m · 24 kmHuayna Potosí6,088 m · 24 kmQ'asiri5,224 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Milluni Lake2.1 km² · 13 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mirador Killi Killi3.8 kmChacaltaya5,421 m · 14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Choqueyapu River38 kmUrqu Jawira

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Clavel de campo en Pura Pura
Retamilla · CC BY-SA 4.0
Camino de oxigenacion Area Protegida Pura Pura
Keldapao · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hongos morados 25 de febrero de 2024
Antonioangelrojasquisbert · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Bosquecillo de Pura Pura

Bolivia

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 11%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 553Species

Jardín Botánico Martín Cárdenas

Bolivia · 237 km

  • 31Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 361Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q60648616) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,616 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, 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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