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Cognac Public Garden

Thesupermat · CC BY-SA 4.0

35% trees around it and 736 species recorded.

54Forestyas Score

ProtectedBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km35%
  • wild within 10 km66%
  • species recorded736

The forest around

35% 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 31%Grassland 3%Water 3%Built-up 62%Trees 36%Grassland 25%Water 1%Cropland 9%Built-up 30%Trees 28%Grassland 40%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 24%Built-up 7%Trees 25%Grassland 40%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 31%Built-up 4%35%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km31%
  • 1–3 km36%
  • 3–6 km28%
  • 6–10 km25%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees36%
  • Grassland25%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland9%
  • Built-up30%

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

736 species recorded.

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

Ruscus aculeatus
Ruscus aculeatusRuscus aculeatus78 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Vista~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Putellis stripties
Putellis striptiesBellis sylvestris57 recordsEitan Ferman · CC BY 3.0
Dwarf Elder
Dwarf ElderSambucus ebulus53 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Holm Oak
Holm OakQuercus ilex47 recordsFritz Geller-Grimm · CC BY-SA 3.0
Field eryngo
Field eryngoEryngium campestre47 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 2.5
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata44 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Helianthemum apenninum
Helianthemum apenninumHelianthemum apenninum44 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · Public domain
Wall germander
Wall germanderTeucrium chamaedrys43 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · Public domain
Pyramidal orchid
Pyramidal orchidAnacamptis pyramidalis42 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea42 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wayfaring tree
Wayfaring treeViburnum lantana40 recordsOpioła Jerzy · CC BY 2.5
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix38 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

54out of 100

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

  • 35%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 66%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 736Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in October.

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

  1. Jan9°2°79 mm
  2. Feb10°2°55 mm
  3. Mar14°4°64 mm
  4. Apr17°7°57 mm
  5. May20°10°65 mm
  6. Jun24°14°56 mm
  7. Jul27°15°43 mm
  8. Aug27°15°47 mm
  9. Sep24°12°45 mm
  10. Oct19°9°71 mm
  11. Nov13°6°82 mm
  12. Dec10°3°81 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cognac Public Garden.

Public park in Cognac, France

Cognac Public Garden is a protected forest in France.

Seen from space, 35% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 66% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

736 species have been recorded around it: 528 plants, 1 fungi, 159 birds and 48 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ruscus aculeatus, Putellis stripties and Dwarf Elder.

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

Jardins du château de Versailles2
Thesupermat · 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.

Cognac Public 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmParcours Santé, Parcours du Roy, Parours Belle Époque and 2 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmChêne Vert de la Cassotte
  • 28picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmL'Échassier and 3 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmOffice de Tourisme
  • 348car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmCamping-car Park Cognac, Camping de Cognac, Aire de services camping-cars de Cherves Richemont and 6 more
  • 36places to stay within 10 kmHôtel François 1er, La Résidence, Roulottes des Quais and 33 more
  • 61restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • shelters and huts 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 Cognac Public 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.

Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Grotte Marcel Clouet2.0 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Charente381 km · 40 m³/s

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Cognac 16 Parc HdV 2014
JLPC · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cognac 16 Théâtre vert gradins 2014
JLPC · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cognac buste Claude Boucher (1)
Père Igor · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Cognac Public Garden

France

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 66%Wild
  • 736Species

Forêt de la Double

France · 75 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 673Species

See the guide

Forêt d'Horte

France · 57 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 680Species

See the guide

Forest of Tronçais

France · 257 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 1,057Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3162626) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species16,166 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 atlasesCavernyas, 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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