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Venezuela Venezuela arboretum

Central University Botanical Garden

Alice Riobueno · CC BY-SA 3.0

20% trees around it and 325 species recorded.

41Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km20%
  • wild within 10 km62%
  • species recorded325
  • Altitude917 m

The forest around

20% 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 41%Shrubland 1%Grassland 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 57%Trees 17%Shrubland 1%Grassland 1%Built-up 81%Trees 48%Shrubland 2%Grassland 3%Built-up 47%Trees 61%Shrubland 5%Grassland 5%Built-up 28%20%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km41%
  • 1–3 km17%
  • 3–6 km48%
  • 6–10 km61%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees17%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up81%

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

325 species recorded.

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

Vachellia macracantha
Vachellia macracanthaVachellia macracantha9 recordsVladeq · CC BY-SA 4.0
Small ballmoss
Small ballmossTillandsia recurvata7 recordsKohlnf · CC BY-SA 3.0
Senegalia polyphylla
Senegalia polyphyllaSenegalia polyphylla7 recordsRicktekk · Public domain
Foxtail copperleaf
Foxtail copperleafAcalypha alopecuroidea7 recordsJuan Carlos Rivera Espinoza · CC BY-SA 4.0
Scorpion's-tail
Scorpion's-tailHeliotropium angiospermum6 recordsJahel Ceron9 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Strawberrytree
StrawberrytreeMuntingia calabura6 recordsJudgefloro · CC0
Varronia curassavica
Varronia curassavicaVarronia curassavica6 recordsMarcia Stefani · CC BY 2.0
Solanum wrightii
Solanum wrightiiSolanum wrightii5 recordsMeneerke bloem · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cannonball tree
Cannonball treeCouroupita guianensis5 recordsRanjithsiji · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ramgoat dashalong
Ramgoat dashalongTurnera ulmifolia4 recordsUpstateNYer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Confederate-vine
Confederate-vineAntigonon leptopus4 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Bouba assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Bushy lippia
Bushy lippiaLippia alba4 recordsJoão Medeiros · CC BY 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

41out of 100

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

  • 20%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 325Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 917 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February.

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

  1. Jan26°19°42 mm
  2. Feb26°19°30 mm
  3. Mar28°19°14 mm
  4. Apr28°20°41 mm
  5. May29°21°71 mm
  6. Jun28°21°87 mm
  7. Jul27°21°101 mm
  8. Aug28°21°120 mm
  9. Sep28°22°89 mm
  10. Oct28°22°96 mm
  11. Nov27°21°77 mm
  12. Dec26°20°74 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Central University Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Caracas, Venezuela

Central University Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Venezuela, 917 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 20% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

325 species have been recorded around it: 130 plants, 4 fungi, 191 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Vachellia macracantha, Small ballmoss and Senegalia polyphylla.

The best time to walk is from January to February.

Jardín Botánico de Caracas - Distrito Capital 4
Alice Riobueno · CC BY-SA 3.0

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 University Botanical Garden 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 km
  • 17named and notable trees within 6 kmLa Ceiba de San Francisco, Chaguaramo, Ceiba and 14 more
  • 22shelters and huts within 6 kmNo Te Apures, Refugio Loma de Matamoros, Kiosko 4B and 19 more
  • 9viewpoints within 5 kmEl Banquito, Mirador Boyacá, La Silla de Caracas and 6 more
  • 195car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmLos Venados, Cueva de Los Palmeros, Lagunazo and 2 more
  • 187places to stay within 10 kmHotel Renovación, Hotel Tampa, Hotel Metropol and 184 more
  • 202restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Central University Botanical Garden.

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.

Peakyas75 mountains within 25 km
Pico Occidental2,456 m · 6.7 kmPico Oriental2,548 m · 7.6 kmTopo Galindo2,579 m · 12 kmTopo Santa Rosa2,065 m · 13 kmPico Naiguatá2,765 m · 13 kmTopo Macanillal2,157 m · 18 kmTopo Tacamahaco2,262 m · 20 kmOrismao. Topo2,227 m · 24 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Quebrada La BoyeraQuebrada La GuairitaQuebrada BarutaRío Tocome

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Jardín Botánico de Caracas - Distrito Capital 3
Alice Riobueno · CC BY-SA 3.0
Avenida de Roystonea oleracea en Jardín Botánico de Caracas
Danielrengelm · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jardín Botánico de la U.C.V.
Ymmer Vanegas · CC BY-SA 3.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079714) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species128,563 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, Riveryas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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