Israel forest
Forest of the Martyrs
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59% trees around it and 255 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km59%
- wild within 10 km86%
- species recorded255
- Altitude582 m
The forest around
59% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km70%
- 1–3 km58%
- 3–6 km48%
- 6–10 km29%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees58%
- Shrubland34%
- Grassland2%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up6%
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
255 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 59%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 86%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 255Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 582 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in March.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan7°88 mm
- Feb8°62 mm
- Mar9°37 mm
- Apr12°21 mm
- May15°5 mm
- Jun18°1 mm
- Jul20°1 mm
- Aug21°0 mm
- Sep20°2 mm
- Oct17°14 mm
- Nov13°46 mm
- Dec9°83 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Forest of the Martyrs.
Forest in Israel
Forest of the Martyrs is a forest in Israel, 582 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 59% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 86% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
255 species have been recorded around it: 66 plants, 1 fungi, 174 birds and 14 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Animated oat, Spontaneous barley and Salvia cistus.
The best time to walk is in March.
Get there and walk
- חניון לילה שורשcampsite · 1.3 km · 16 within 10 km
- מלון לוגוסplace to stay · 4.2 km · 14 within 10 km
- Shoreshnearest town · 1.9 km in a straight line
- Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 30 km in a straight lineCar hire at TLV airport (Tel Aviv)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 83marked trails within 5 kmשביל ישראל, דרך נוף דרומית, דרך נוף צפונית and 80 more
- 1named and notable trees within 6 kmחורשה קטנה
- 20picnic sites within 4 kmחוות הגתות, חניון רפאל קפלן and 18 more
- 38shelters and huts within 6 kmקופות שמורת הטבע מערת הנטיפים, אוהל מועד and 36 more
- 32viewpoints within 5 kmהר יעלה, מצפור נחל כסלון, מצפה שער הגיא and 29 more
- 1visitor centres within 6 km
- 38car parks within 3 km
- 16campsites within 10 kmחניון לילה שורש, חניון לילה נחל צובה, חניון לילה נחל כסלון and 13 more
- 14places to stay within 10 kmמלון לוגוס, מלון צובה, מלון כרמים and 11 more
- 6restaurants 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 Forest of the Martyrs.
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.
Peakyas96 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas5 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Cavernyas9 caves within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Forest of the Martyrs
Israel
- 65Forestyas Score
- 59%Trees
- 86%Wild
- 255Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q574308) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 25,027 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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