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Congolian forests

Robert Sharp · Public domain

100% of the land around it is trees.

60Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • Altitude420 m

The forest around

100% 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.

100%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km100%
  • 3–6 km100%
  • 6–10 km100%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees100%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

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

  • 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 420 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

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

  1. Jan30°21°69 mm
  2. Feb30°22°119 mm
  3. Mar29°22°158 mm
  4. Apr29°22°141 mm
  5. May29°22°155 mm
  6. Jun29°21°150 mm
  7. Jul29°21°145 mm
  8. Aug28°21°168 mm
  9. Sep28°21°163 mm
  10. Oct28°22°191 mm
  11. Nov28°22°176 mm
  12. Dec28°21°112 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Congolian forests.

Tropical rainforest, in Central Africa.

Congolian forests is a forest in Equatorial Guinea, 420 m above the sea.

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

The best time to walk is from December to January.

Sapele Tree Congo Brazzaville
Robert Sharp · Public domain

Get there and walk

  • Gemena Airport (GMA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 283 km in a straight line

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.

Congolian forests 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.

    Photographs

    The forest, as people saw it.

    Alima - Congo
    Bsm15 · CC BY-SA 3.0
    Development Aid Congo
    Julien Harneis · CC BY-SA 2.0
    Development Aid in Congo Wasted
    Julien Harneis · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Other forests nearby.

    Congolian forests

    Equatorial Guinea

    • 60Forestyas Score
    • 100%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • —Species

    Salonga National Park

    DR Congo · 341 km

    • 80Forestyas Score
    • 96%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 27Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q3079079) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    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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