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Cèdre Gouraud

Maxim Massalitin · CC BY-SA 2.0

72% trees around it and 106 species recorded.

69Forestyas Score

Notable treeMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km72%
  • wild within 10 km88%
  • species recorded106
  • Altitude1,689 m

The forest around

72% 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 91%Shrubland 1%Grassland 7%Cropland 0%Trees 70%Shrubland 1%Grassland 23%Bare ground 0%Cropland 6%Trees 39%Shrubland 3%Grassland 49%Bare ground 0%Cropland 8%Built-up 1%Trees 27%Shrubland 4%Grassland 53%Bare ground 2%Cropland 13%Built-up 2%72%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km91%
  • 1–3 km70%
  • 3–6 km39%
  • 6–10 km27%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees70%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland23%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland6%
  • Built-up0%

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

106 species recorded.

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

Atlantic cedar
Atlantic cedarCedrus atlantica35 recordsNikos D. Karabelas · CC BY 4.0
Argyrocytisus battandieri
Argyrocytisus battandieriArgyrocytisus battandieri3 recordsMagnus Manske · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spurge-laurel
Spurge-laurelDaphne laureola3 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Quercus canariensis
Quercus canariensisQuercus canariensis2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Carlosblh assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Quercus rotundifolia
Quercus rotundifoliaQuercus rotundifolia2 recordsPor los caminos de Málaga · CC BY 2.0
Laurustinus
LaurustinusViburnum tinus2 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Red dock
Red dockRumex bucephalophorus2 recordsRobert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0
Euphorbia nicaeensis
Euphorbia nicaeensisEuphorbia nicaeensis2 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sabulina tenuifolia
Sabulina tenuifoliaSabulina tenuifolia2 recordsJan Kops · Public domain
Campanula filicaulisCampanula filicaulis2 records
Red-berried MistletoeViscum cruciatum2 records
Silene colorataSilene colorata2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

69out of 100

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

  • 72%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 88%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 106Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,689 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan11°0°90 mm
  2. Feb12°0°82 mm
  3. Mar15°3°92 mm
  4. Apr18°6°75 mm
  5. May23°9°47 mm
  6. Jun28°13°13 mm
  7. Jul34°17°6 mm
  8. Aug33°18°17 mm
  9. Sep28°13°33 mm
  10. Oct22°9°71 mm
  11. Nov15°4°107 mm
  12. Dec12°1°87 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cèdre Gouraud.

Tree in Cedre Gouraud Forest

Cèdre Gouraud is a notable tree in Morocco, 1,689 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 72% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 88% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

106 species have been recorded around it: 13 plants, 2 fungi, 91 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Atlantic cedar, Argyrocytisus battandieri and Spurge-laurel.

The best time to walk is in April.

Cèdre Gouraud
Maxim Massalitin · CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

Cèdre Gouraud 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 kmCèdre de Gouraud
  • 3picnic sites within 4 kmPicnic Cèdre de Gouraud
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmCamp Amazigh, Euro Camping Emirates, Camping Ras El Ma and 2 more
  • 22places to stay within 10 kmGîte Foreste Tagroumt, Palais des cerisiers, Palais de Cerisiers and 19 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • restaurants 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 Cèdre Gouraud.

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.

Peakyas141 mountains within 25 km
Toufririne5.9 kmMischliffen2,036 m · 6.3 kmJbel Hebri2,104 m · 7.4 kmTimdikine9.3 kmJbel El Koudiate1,780 m · volcano · 12 kmTazioualt16 kmTizlit Amenaït16 kmTirhela25 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.

Cedre Gourand, Azrou, Morocco
Sabah Elbezazi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cedre Gourand
Sabah Elbezazi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Le vieux Cèdre Gourau
Nabil KHIBIT · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Cèdre Gouraud

Morocco

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 106Species

El Ma’moura

Morocco · 153 km

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 15%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 56Species

See the guide

Bouknadel Gardens

Morocco · 166 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 58Species

See the guide

Gourougou forest

Morocco · 281 km

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 94Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2602978) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,369 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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