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Cerrado

Simplus Menegati · CC BY-SA 4.0

64% trees around it and 46 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ForestWildWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km64%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded46
  • Altitude722 m

The forest around

64% 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 80%Shrubland 17%Grassland 2%Trees 62%Shrubland 31%Grassland 7%Trees 52%Shrubland 34%Grassland 13%Trees 29%Shrubland 41%Grassland 29%Cropland 1%64%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km80%
  • 1–3 km62%
  • 3–6 km52%
  • 6–10 km29%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees62%
  • Shrubland31%
  • Grassland7%
  • Cropland0%

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

46 species recorded.

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

Myrcia guianensis
Myrcia guianensisMyrcia guianensis9 recordsAlex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil · CC BY 2.0
Dyckia marnier-lapostollei
Dyckia marnier-lapostolleiDyckia marnier-lapostollei4 recordsMegan Hansen from Portland, OR, US · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pouteria gardneri
Pouteria gardneriPouteria gardneri4 recordsAlex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil · CC BY 2.0
Locustberry
LocustberryByrsonima coccolobifolia4 recordsJoão Medeiros · CC BY 2.0
Microlicia viminalis
Microlicia viminalisMicrolicia viminalis4 recordsJoão Medeiros · CC BY 2.0
Ocotea nitida
Ocotea nitidaOcotea nitida4 recordsInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica - INMA · CC BY-SA 4.0
Byrsonima laxiflora
Byrsonima laxifloraByrsonima laxiflora4 recordsJoão Medeiros · CC BY 2.0
Manihot pruinosaNT
Manihot pruinosaManihot pruinosa3 recordsJohann Baptist Emanuel Pohl · Public domain
Manihot purpureocostata
Manihot purpureocostataManihot purpureocostata3 recordsJohann Baptist Emanuel Pohl · Public domain
Haspan flatsedge
Haspan flatsedgeCyperus haspan2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Trema micranthum
Trema micranthumTrema micranthum2 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Manihot tripartita
Manihot tripartitaManihot tripartita2 recordsJohann Baptist Emanuel Pohl · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 64%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 46Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 722 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to July.

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

  1. Jan28°19°181 mm
  2. Feb27°19°145 mm
  3. Mar27°19°173 mm
  4. Apr27°18°97 mm
  5. May28°16°20 mm
  6. Jun29°15°2 mm
  7. Jul29°14°3 mm
  8. Aug31°16°5 mm
  9. Sep33°19°28 mm
  10. Oct32°20°96 mm
  11. Nov28°19°177 mm
  12. Dec28°19°181 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cerrado.

Tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil

Cerrado is a forest in Brazil, 722 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 64% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

46 species have been recorded around it: 46 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Myrcia guianensis, Dyckia marnier-lapostollei and Pouteria gardneri.

The best time to walk is from May to July.

Arvore do cerrado em jaguariaiva
Simplus Menegati · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Cerrado 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

  • 1campsites within 10 kmÁrea de Camping
  • 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
  • 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.

In our other atlases

Around Cerrado.

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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Serra Santana16 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Cachoeira das Sete Quedas12 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.

Parque Estadual do Cerrado.6
Simplus Menegati · CC BY-SA 4.0
Augusto Miranda Cachoeira Abade Pirenopolis GO (40156145494)
MTur Destinos · Public domain
Augusto Miranda Cachoeira Abade Pirenopolis GO (40823359742)
MTur Destinos · Public domain

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q278512) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species204 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
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Cascadyas

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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