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Botanical Garden of Curitiba

SamirNosteb · CC BY-SA 2.5 br

10% trees around it and 777 species recorded.

35Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km10%
  • wild within 10 km30%
  • species recorded777
  • Altitude918 m

The forest around

10% 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 22%Grassland 6%Built-up 72%Trees 8%Grassland 4%Bare ground 0%Built-up 87%Trees 10%Grassland 4%Bare ground 0%Built-up 85%Trees 25%Grassland 12%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 61%10%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km22%
  • 1–3 km8%
  • 3–6 km10%
  • 6–10 km25%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees8%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up87%

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

777 species recorded.

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

Chaetogastra gracilis
Chaetogastra gracilisChaetogastra gracilis44 recordsTraudydequadros · CC BY-SA 4.0
Holocalyx balansae
Holocalyx balansaeHolocalyx balansae22 recordsCarlos A. Milanesi · Public domain
Sea anemone passion flower
Sea anemone passion flowerPassiflora actinia22 recordsLucianolll · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ocotea puberula
Ocotea puberulaOcotea puberula22 recordsMindGZ · Public domain
Allophylus edulis
Allophylus edulisAllophylus edulis20 recordsLaura Montanía · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild honeytree
Wild honeytreeCasearia decandra19 recordsAlex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil · CC BY 2.0
Crackopen
CrackopenCasearia sylvestris17 recordsTarciso Leão from Saint Paul, MN, Brasil · CC BY 2.0
American black nightshade
American black nightshadeSolanum americanum15 recordsJuan Carlos Fonseca Mata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Candelabra TreeCR
Candelabra TreeAraucaria angustifolia14 recordsGermano Roberto Schüür · CC BY-SA 3.0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens14 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Australian cheesewood
Australian cheesewoodPittosporum undulatum13 recordsLouisa Anne Meredith · Public domain
Myrrhinium atropurpureum
Myrrhinium atropurpureumMyrrhinium atropurpureum13 recordsAnamafe2012 · 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.

35out of 100

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

  • 10%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 30%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 777Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 918 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

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

  1. Jan26°17°221 mm
  2. Feb26°17°192 mm
  3. Mar25°16°148 mm
  4. Apr24°14°102 mm
  5. May20°11°104 mm
  6. Jun19°9°106 mm
  7. Jul19°9°97 mm
  8. Aug20°9°77 mm
  9. Sep22°11°122 mm
  10. Oct24°13°148 mm
  11. Nov25°14°141 mm
  12. Dec26°16°173 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 of Curitiba.

Botanical garden

Botanical Garden of Curitiba is an arboretum in Brazil, 918 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 10% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 30% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

777 species have been recorded around it: 655 plants, 2 fungi, 117 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Chaetogastra gracilis, Holocalyx balansae and Sea anemone passion flower.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

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SamirNosteb · CC BY-SA 2.5 br

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Só Trailers Curitiba PRcampsite · 3.8 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Rede Andrade Mercadoplace to stay · 2.1 km · 153 within 10 km
  • Curitibanearest town · 3.8 km in a straight line
  • Curitiba-Afonso Pena International Airport (CWB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at CWB airport (Curitiba)Discover 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.

Botanical Garden of Curitiba 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

  • 78named and notable trees within 6 kmAbacate, Araucária, Guapuruvu and 75 more
  • 7picnic sites within 4 km
  • 45shelters and huts within 6 kmAv. Comendador Franco, 6915, Av. Comendador Franco, 7399, Av. Comendador Franco, 6900 and 42 more
  • 3viewpoints within 5 kmTorre dos Filósofos, Belvedere, Mirante do Memorial
  • 2visitor centres within 6 km
  • 453car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmSó Trailers Curitiba PR, Curitiba - Só Trailer and 2 more
  • 153places to stay within 10 kmRede Andrade Mercado, Hotel Lisboa, Hotel Golden Park and 150 more
  • 234restaurants 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 Botanical Garden of Curitiba.

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.

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Pico Pão de Loth24 kmMount Anhangava25 kmPico do Anhangava25 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.

Jardim Botânico Fanchette Rischbieter em Curitiba 03
Halley Pacheco de Oliveira · CC BY-SA 3.0
CuritibaBotanicoOutubroRosa
SamirNosteb · CC BY 3.0
CuritibaJardimBotanicoSkyline
KikoCorreia · CC BY-SA 2.5 br

Other forests nearby.

Botanical Garden of Curitiba

Brazil

  • 35Forestyas Score
  • 10%Trees
  • 30%Wild
  • 777Species

Floresta Nacional de Irati

Brazil · 134 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 159Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q94923) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,634 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.

The family

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