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Chapman’s Baobab

abi.bhattachan · CC BY 2.0

0% trees around it and 1 species recorded.

23Forestyas Score

Notable treeWild

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded1
  • Altitude909 m

The forest around

0% 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.

Shrubland 2%Grassland 86%Bare ground 12%Shrubland 5%Grassland 90%Wetland 0%Bare ground 5%Shrubland 12%Grassland 83%Wetland 2%Bare ground 3%Shrubland 11%Grassland 66%Wetland 2%Water 0%Bare ground 20%0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km0%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Shrubland5%
  • Grassland90%
  • Wetland0%
  • Bare ground5%

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

1 species recorded.

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

Scaly-feathered Finch
Scaly-feathered FinchSporopipes squamifrons5 recordsFrank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium · 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.

23out of 100

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

  • 0%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 909 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan34°22°100 mm
  2. Feb33°21°96 mm
  3. Mar33°20°59 mm
  4. Apr31°17°23 mm
  5. May28°12°2 mm
  6. Jun25°9°4 mm
  7. Jul24°8°0 mm
  8. Aug28°11°0 mm
  9. Sep33°15°3 mm
  10. Oct36°20°16 mm
  11. Nov35°22°49 mm
  12. Dec34°22°90 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chapman’s Baobab.

Babobab in Botswana until 2016

Chapman’s Baobab is a notable tree in Botswana, 909 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 0% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 1 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Chapman's baobab (4954708191)
abi.bhattachan · 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.

Chapman’s Baobab 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

  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmJack#s Camp
  • 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
  • campsites 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.

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q25387995) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7 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

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

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