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Algeria Algeria arboretum

Botanical Garden of Hamma

Khaled zouaoui · CC BY-SA 4.0

10% trees around it and 66 species recorded.

28Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km10%
  • wild within 10 km57%
  • species recorded66

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 20%Grassland 1%Water 12%Bare ground 2%Built-up 65%Trees 8%Grassland 2%Water 32%Bare ground 2%Built-up 56%Trees 14%Shrubland 0%Grassland 5%Water 32%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 48%Trees 13%Shrubland 0%Grassland 11%Water 34%Bare ground 1%Cropland 8%Built-up 31%10%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km20%
  • 1–3 km8%
  • 3–6 km14%
  • 6–10 km13%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees8%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water32%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up56%

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

66 species recorded.

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

Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Pomegranate
PomegranatePunica granatum4 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Reed
Common ReedPhragmites australis3 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Japanese spindletree
Japanese spindletreeEuonymus japonicus3 recordsQwert1234 · Public domain
Candelabra aloe
Candelabra aloeAloe arborescens2 recordsTon Rulkens from Mozambique · CC BY-SA 2.0
Man orchid
Man orchidOrchis anthropophora2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Friar's cowl
Friar's cowlArisarum vulgare2 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Quercus afaresVU
Quercus afaresQuercus afares2 recordsMbzt · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spreading pellitory
Spreading pellitoryParietaria judaica2 recordsFranco Folini · CC BY 2.5
Erect pellitory-of-the-wall
Erect pellitory-of-the-wallParietaria officinalis2 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Castor oil plant
Castor oil plantRicinus communis2 recordsNolege · CC BY-SA 3.0
Silene fuscata
Silene fuscataSilene fuscata2 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

28out 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
  • 57%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 66Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April and in November.

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

  1. Jan13°5°89 mm
  2. Feb14°5°69 mm
  3. Mar17°7°68 mm
  4. Apr20°10°64 mm
  5. May24°13°46 mm
  6. Jun30°17°14 mm
  7. Jul34°21°5 mm
  8. Aug34°21°13 mm
  9. Sep29°18°39 mm
  10. Oct25°14°58 mm
  11. Nov18°10°92 mm
  12. Dec14°6°83 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 Hamma.

Gardens in Algiers

Botanical Garden of Hamma is an arboretum in Algeria.

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

66 species have been recorded around it: 24 plants, 0 fungi, 42 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Oleander, Pomegranate and Common Reed.

The best time to walk is from March to April and in November.

The Test Garden Hamma
Khaled zouaoui · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • CSL DGSN Forêt de Baïnemcampsite · 11 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Auberge de Jeunesseplace to stay · 0.9 km · 153 within 10 km
  • Algiersnearest town · 2.0 km in a straight line
  • Houari Boumediene Airport (ALG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight lineCar hire in AlgiersDiscover 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 Hamma 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

  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmFruit tree, Arbre Remarquable, Tarzan Tree
  • 4picnic sites within 4 kmAire de détente and 3 more
  • 184shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 20viewpoints within 5 kmMartyrs Memorial 2, مقام الشهيد, l'Horloge Florale and 17 more
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmAgence des fonctionaires CNAS, Atlas tours, Mahlou tourisme
  • 204car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmCSL DGSN Forêt de Baïnem, Plage les Oiseaux and 6 more
  • 153places to stay within 10 kmAuberge de Jeunesse, Résidence Elhana إقامة الهناء, Hôtel de l'Indépendance فندق الاستقلال and 150 more
  • 281restaurants 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 Hamma.

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.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Massif de la Bouzareah4.3 kmGrand Vent7.8 kmDjebel Bou Fertetto21 kmDjebel Zerouela22 kmKoudiat el Madene25 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Les Sablettes1.0 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Center of Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and GeophysicsBortle 8 · 6.8 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Cave of Cervantes0.8 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.

Botanical Garden of Hamma
MariaArch · CC BY-SA 4.0
Algiers Botanical Garden Hamma
Wadie Sama · CC BY-SA 4.0
Allée des dracoenas - Jardin d'essai El Hamma - Alger
Mimosa dz · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Botanical Garden of Hamma

Algeria

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 10%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 66Species

Forêt Domaniale de Zeralda

Algeria · 22 km

  • 37Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 114Species

See the guide

Mediterranean woodlands and forests

Algeria · 107 km

  • 12Forestyas Score
  • 4%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q608638) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,508 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, Coastya, Darkskyas, Cavernyas

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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