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Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción

Iamlatin · CC BY-SA 3.0

40% trees around it and 296 species recorded.

51Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km40%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded296
  • Altitude106 m

The forest around

40% 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 85%Grassland 7%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Built-up 7%Trees 34%Grassland 6%Water 10%Bare ground 1%Built-up 49%Trees 42%Shrubland 0%Grassland 13%Wetland 0%Water 8%Bare ground 2%Cropland 0%Built-up 34%Trees 42%Grassland 17%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 36%40%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km85%
  • 1–3 km34%
  • 3–6 km42%
  • 6–10 km42%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees34%
  • Grassland6%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water10%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up49%

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

296 species recorded.

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

Gleditsia amorphoides
Gleditsia amorphoidesGleditsia amorphoides10 recordsBarbieri · Public domain
Peltophorum dubium
Peltophorum dubiumPeltophorum dubium7 recordsאבישי טייכר · Public domain
Parapiptadenia rigida
Parapiptadenia rigidaParapiptadenia rigida6 recordsO Tupinólogo · CC BY 4.0
Bitter Cassava
Bitter CassavaManihot esculenta6 recordsVpuipV · CC BY-SA 4.0
Gomesa ciliata
Gomesa ciliataGomesa ciliata6 recordsAlex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil · CC BY 2.0
Mimosa polycarpa
Mimosa polycarpaMimosa polycarpa5 recordsSten Porse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chloroleucon tenuiflorum
Chloroleucon tenuiflorumChloroleucon tenuiflorum4 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Thorn-apple
Thorn-appleDatura innoxia3 recordsEl Grafo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Madeira Winter Cherry
Madeira Winter CherrySolanum pseudocapsicum3 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mimosa pigra
Mimosa pigraMimosa pigra3 recordsWibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Trema micranthum
Trema micranthumTrema micranthum3 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Showy balloonvine
Showy balloonvineCardiospermum grandiflorum3 recordsBernd Sauerwein · 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.

51out of 100

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

  • 40%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 296Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 106 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan34°23°123 mm
  2. Feb34°23°149 mm
  3. Mar33°21°130 mm
  4. Apr30°19°143 mm
  5. May24°14°143 mm
  6. Jun23°12°71 mm
  7. Jul23°11°59 mm
  8. Aug26°12°34 mm
  9. Sep29°15°70 mm
  10. Oct32°19°161 mm
  11. Nov32°20°197 mm
  12. Dec33°22°182 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción.

Botanical garden and zoo located in Asunción, Paraguay

Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción is an arboretum in Paraguay.

Seen from space, 40% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

296 species have been recorded around it: 68 plants, 0 fungi, 227 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Gleditsia amorphoides, Peltophorum dubium and Parapiptadenia rigida.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Asuncion zoo
Iamlatin · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • House Atilio Llanocampsite · 13 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Antoniaplace to stay · 3.3 km · 207 within 10 km
  • Mariano Roque Alonsonearest town · 5.9 km in a straight line
  • Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 5 km in a straight lineCar hire at ASU airport (Asunción)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at ASU airport (Asunción)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción 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 kmRuta-01 de Senderismo. Ferrocarril, R.G.S.C. et Chiquitunga "Catholica";
  • 40named and notable trees within 6 kmTransformador, Árbol, Árbol y su retoño and 37 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 14shelters and huts within 6 kmVilla Morra Centro de Eventos, Tiendas varias, Locales comerciales and 11 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmPequeña Principe
  • 31car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmHouse Atilio Llano
  • 207places to stay within 10 kmAntonia, Hotel le pelican, Hotel Las Residentas and 204 more
  • 40restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints 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 Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción.

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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Coi Hill19 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.

Jardin Botanico y Zoologico de Asuncion
Diego Toledo · CC BY-SA 4.0
BotanicGarden
Iwan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jardín de la Señora 1
Beacazal · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q9010970) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species30,560 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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