
Suriname forest
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.
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.



Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
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.
- Jan21°145 mm
- Feb21°145 mm
- Mar21°150 mm
- Apr22°220 mm
- May22°305 mm
- Jun22°254 mm
- Jul22°211 mm
- Aug22°136 mm
- Sep22°62 mm
- Oct22°62 mm
- Nov22°81 mm
- Dec22°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.

Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport (PBM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 217 km in a straight lineCar hire at PBM airport (Paramaribo)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.

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.
Other forests nearby.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q189934) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 18 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX 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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