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Floresta Nacional de Irati

TropoPiegas · CC BY-SA 4.0

84% trees around it and 159 species recorded.

68Forestyas Score

ForestWildlife

  • trees within 3 km84%
  • wild within 10 km69%
  • species recorded159
  • Altitude876 m

The forest around

84% 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 89%Grassland 0%Cropland 10%Trees 83%Grassland 5%Water 0%Cropland 12%Trees 67%Grassland 8%Water 1%Cropland 23%Built-up 1%Trees 56%Grassland 7%Cropland 35%Built-up 1%84%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km89%
  • 1–3 km83%
  • 3–6 km67%
  • 6–10 km56%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees83%
  • Grassland5%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland12%
  • Built-up0%

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

159 species recorded.

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

Loblolly Pine
Loblolly PinePinus taeda20 recordsWoodlot · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yerba mateNT
Yerba mateIlex paraguariensis6 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Symphyotrichum regnellii
Symphyotrichum regnelliiSymphyotrichum regnellii4 recordsThe New York Botanical Garden · CC BY 4.0
Campomanesia xanthocarpa
Campomanesia xanthocarpaCampomanesia xanthocarpa4 recordsJefferson Gomes Lima · CC0
Achyrocline alata
Achyrocline alataAchyrocline alata3 recordsInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica - INMA · CC BY-SA 4.0
Achyrocline saturejoides
Achyrocline saturejoidesAchyrocline saturejoides2 recordsIsmar Schein at Portuguese Wikipedia · Public domain
Surinam cherry
Surinam cherryEugenia uniflora2 recordsBageense · CC BY-SA 4.0
Baccharis microdontaBaccharis microdonta7 records
Roupala montanaRoupala montana5 records
Chaetogastra cerastifoliaChaetogastra cerastifolia3 records
Acisanthera variabilisAcisanthera variabilis3 records
Bentawn flatsedgeCyperus reflexus2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

68out of 100

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

  • 84%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 69%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 159Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 876 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. Jan27°17°176 mm
  2. Feb27°17°148 mm
  3. Mar27°16°110 mm
  4. Apr25°14°92 mm
  5. May21°10°113 mm
  6. Jun19°9°122 mm
  7. Jul19°8°97 mm
  8. Aug21°9°87 mm
  9. Sep24°11°124 mm
  10. Oct25°14°169 mm
  11. Nov26°15°128 mm
  12. Dec27°16°147 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Floresta Nacional de Irati.

Floresta Nacional de Irati is a forest in Brazil, 876 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 84% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 69% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

159 species have been recorded around it: 24 plants, 0 fungi, 118 birds and 17 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Loblolly Pine, Yerba mate and Symphyotrichum regnellii.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Floresta Nacional de Irati TropoPiegas (01) 01
TropoPiegas · 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.

Floresta Nacional de Irati 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

  • 11places to stay within 10 kmPousada Fazenda Virá, Parada Anila, Hotel Colonial and 8 more
  • 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
  • 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 Floresta Nacional de Irati.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Serra da Ribeira23 kmMorro do Pique24 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.

Águas da nascente
Diogo Eler · CC BY-SA 4.0
Floresta Nacional de Irati - Phisaky (02)
Phisaky · CC BY-SA 4.0
Floresta Nacional de Irati - Phisaky (04)
Phisaky · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Floresta Nacional de Irati

Brazil

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 159Species

Botanical Garden of Curitiba

Brazil · 134 km

  • 35Forestyas Score
  • 10%Trees
  • 30%Wild
  • 777Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q18479023) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species808 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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