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Central Suriname Nature Reserve

David Evers · CC BY 2.0

100% trees around it and 6 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded6
  • Altitude117 m

The forest around

100% 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.

100%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km100%
  • 3–6 km100%
  • 6–10 km100%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees100%

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

6 species recorded.

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

Unonopsis rufescens
Unonopsis rufescensUnonopsis rufescens4 recordsMuseu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) · CC BY 4.0
Palo de gallina
Palo de gallinaAlchorneopsis floribunda3 recordsInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica - INMA · CC BY-SA 4.0
Unonopsis guatterioides
Unonopsis guatterioidesUnonopsis guatterioides2 recordsMuseu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) · CC BY 4.0
Licaria chrysophyllaLicaria chrysophylla3 records
Parkia uleiParkia ulei3 records
NT
Clusia platystigmaClusia platystigma2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

74out of 100

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

  • 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 6Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 117 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from August to October.

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

  1. Jan29°21°145 mm
  2. Feb30°21°145 mm
  3. Mar30°21°150 mm
  4. Apr29°22°220 mm
  5. May28°22°305 mm
  6. Jun27°22°254 mm
  7. Jul28°22°211 mm
  8. Aug28°22°136 mm
  9. Sep30°22°62 mm
  10. Oct32°22°62 mm
  11. Nov32°22°81 mm
  12. Dec30°22°162 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Central Suriname Nature Reserve.

Nature reserve in Suriname

Central Suriname Nature Reserve is a forest in Suriname.

Seen from space, 100% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

6 species have been recorded around it: 6 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Unonopsis rufescens, Palo de gallina and Unonopsis guatterioides.

The best time to walk is from August to October.

Amazon jungle from above
David Evers · CC BY 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.

Central Suriname Nature Reserve 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

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 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.

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    • 45Forestyas Score
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    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q189934) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species18 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

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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