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Chișinău Botanical Garden

Zaynab J · CC BY-SA 4.0

34% trees around it and 108 species recorded.

39Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km34%
  • wild within 10 km51%
  • species recorded108
  • Altitude73 m

The forest around

34% 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 42%Grassland 11%Water 3%Cropland 2%Built-up 42%Trees 34%Grassland 10%Bare ground 0%Cropland 21%Built-up 35%Trees 30%Grassland 21%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 21%Built-up 27%Trees 28%Grassland 23%Water 0%Cropland 27%Built-up 21%34%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km42%
  • 1–3 km34%
  • 3–6 km30%
  • 6–10 km28%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees34%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland21%
  • Built-up35%

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

108 species recorded.

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

Stickywilly
StickywillyGalium aparine3 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus3 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
White helleborine
White helleborineCephalanthera damasonium2 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Birthwort
BirthwortAristolochia clematitis2 recordsGeorg Slickers · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus2 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
European Alder
European AlderAlnus glutinosa2 recordsAEngelhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whorled clary
Whorled clarySalvia verticillata2 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Common hop
Common hopHumulus lupulus2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Rasbak assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nanking cherry
Nanking cherryPrunus tomentosa2 recordsRuslan V.Albitsky aka pauk · CC BY-SA 2.5
Common Barberry
Common BarberryBerberis vulgaris2 recordsgailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0
Rough chervil
Rough chervilChaerophyllum temulum2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

39out of 100

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

  • 34%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 51%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 108Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 73 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan0°-7°41 mm
  2. Feb2°-6°33 mm
  3. Mar9°-2°38 mm
  4. Apr16°4°40 mm
  5. May23°11°52 mm
  6. Jun27°15°70 mm
  7. Jul30°18°61 mm
  8. Aug30°17°36 mm
  9. Sep24°11°39 mm
  10. Oct16°5°46 mm
  11. Nov8°0°42 mm
  12. Dec2°-5°40 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chișinău Botanical Garden.

Chișinău Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Moldova.

Seen from space, 34% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 51% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

108 species have been recorded around it: 22 plants, 0 fungi, 86 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Stickywilly, European bird cherry and Greater Celandine.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Botanical Garden in Chisinau
Zaynab J · 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.

Chișinău 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

  • 9picnic sites within 4 km
  • 359shelters and huts within 6 kmFoișor, La Măsuță, Bomb shelter and 356 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmBelvedere Maria Drăgan, Fly Open and 3 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmCentrul de Informare Turistică
  • 315car parks within 3 km
  • 20campsites within 10 kmLa Moșie, Bază de odihnă, Baza de odihnă „George Park” and 17 more
  • 137places to stay within 10 kmOlimpia, Locuința Asistată „In Cammino”, Centrul de Plasament al Copilului „Regina Pacis” and 134 more
  • 117restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees 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 Chișinău 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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Gora Restiyana18 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Valea Morilor lake0.3 km² · 7.1 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.

MD.C.C - Botanical Garden of Chișinău - oct 2018 - 07
Gikü · CC0
A branch of a conifer from Chisinau Botanical Garden
Iurie Nistor · CC0
A duck from Chisinau Botanical Garden 01
Iurie Nistor · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Chișinău Botanical Garden

Moldova

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 108Species

Hîrbovăț Forest

Moldova · 40 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 45%Wild
  • 137Species

See the guide

Oak of Stephen the Great in Cobîlea

Moldova · 101 km

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 43%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 5Species

See the guide

Sofiyivsky Park

Ukraine · 222 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 37%Wild
  • 232Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1970380) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,603 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, Lakeyas

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

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