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Chikangawa Forest Reserve

Malawiana · Public domain

67% trees around it and 29 species recorded.

63Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km67%
  • wild within 10 km91%
  • species recorded29
  • Altitude1,733 m

The forest around

67% 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 51%Shrubland 10%Grassland 24%Cropland 15%Trees 69%Shrubland 20%Grassland 8%Cropland 2%Trees 67%Shrubland 15%Grassland 13%Cropland 5%Trees 51%Shrubland 26%Grassland 13%Cropland 11%Built-up 0%67%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km51%
  • 1–3 km69%
  • 3–6 km67%
  • 6–10 km51%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees69%
  • Shrubland20%
  • Grassland8%
  • Cropland2%

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

29 species recorded.

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

Sopubia lanata
Sopubia lanataSopubia lanata13 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Blackeyed pea
Blackeyed peaVigna unguiculata5 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Sorghum
SorghumSorghum bicolor4 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Pethan assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spotted calla lily
Spotted calla lilyZantedeschia albomaculata3 recordsA H Miguel · Public domain
Black-eyed Susan vine
Black-eyed Susan vineThunbergia alata3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
African Eggplant
African EggplantSolanum anguivi2 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Solanum terminale
Solanum terminaleSolanum terminale2 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Zombi pea
Zombi peaVigna vexillata2 recordsJayesh Patil from Mumbai, India · CC BY 2.0
Hairypod cowpea
Hairypod cowpeaVigna luteola2 recordsBob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth! · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bambarra groundnut
Bambarra groundnutVigna subterranea2 recordsJoseph Pohl · Public domain
Psorospermum febrifugum
Psorospermum febrifugumPsorospermum febrifugum2 recordsRebecca Fowlds · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eriosema montanumEriosema montanum7 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

63out of 100

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

  • 67%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 91%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 29Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,733 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. Jan24°18°305 mm
  2. Feb24°18°244 mm
  3. Mar24°17°225 mm
  4. Apr23°16°113 mm
  5. May22°14°20 mm
  6. Jun21°11°9 mm
  7. Jul20°11°7 mm
  8. Aug23°12°3 mm
  9. Sep26°14°4 mm
  10. Oct28°17°20 mm
  11. Nov28°18°91 mm
  12. Dec26°18°245 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chikangawa Forest Reserve.

Cultivated forest in the South Viphya Forest Reserve in Chikangawa, Malawi

Chikangawa Forest Reserve is a forest in Malawi, 1,733 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 67% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 91% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

29 species have been recorded around it: 29 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sopubia lanata, Blackeyed pea and Sorghum.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Mzuzu
Malawiana · Public domain

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.

Chikangawa Forest 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.

    In our other atlases

    Around Chikangawa Forest Reserve.

    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.

    Peakyas22 mountains within 25 km
    Wozi Hill9.1 kmNthungwa Hill16 kmNkhalapya Hill18 kmWatu Hill19 kmMapumbulu Hills19 kmMunga Hills21 kmKawandama Hill23 kmThanthi Hills25 km

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

    Other forests nearby.

    Chikangawa Forest Reserve

    Malawi

    • 63Forestyas Score
    • 67%Trees
    • 91%Wild
    • 29Species

    Viphya Forest

    Malawi · 144 km

    • 30Forestyas Score
    • 26%Trees
    • 82%Wild
    • 2Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q126595482) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species160 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

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

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