China forest
Gongqing Forest Park
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15% trees around it and 129 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km15%
- wild within 10 km36%
- species recorded129
The forest around
15% 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 km42%
- 1–3 km11%
- 3–6 km16%
- 6–10 km12%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees11%
- Grassland1%
- Water16%
- Bare ground1%
- Cropland4%
- Built-up67%
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
129 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
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).
- 15%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 36%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 129Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
When to walk
Best for walking in April.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan1°65 mm
- Feb2°76 mm
- Mar5°80 mm
- Apr10°92 mm
- May16°96 mm
- Jun21°192 mm
- Jul25°154 mm
- Aug25°158 mm
- Sep21°129 mm
- Oct16°72 mm
- Nov10°70 mm
- Dec3°57 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Gongqing Forest Park.
Building in Gongqing Forest Park, China
Gongqing Forest Park is a forest in China.
Seen from space, 15% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 36% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
129 species have been recorded around it: 10 plants, 0 fungi, 117 birds and 2 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Paper mulberry, Orychophragmus violaceus and Asian copperleaf.
The best time to walk is in April.
Get there and walk
- 华美达上海五角场大酒店place to stay · 4.2 km · 295 within 10 km
- Gaojingnearest town · 6.7 km in a straight line
- Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 24 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 19shelters and huts within 6 km三好坞 and 18 more
- 91car parks within 3 km
- 295places to stay within 10 km华美达上海五角场大酒店, 石油大厦宾馆, 隆德丰国际大酒店 and 292 more
- 26restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- marked trails within 5 km
- named and notable trees within 6 km
- picnic sites within 4 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- campsites within 10 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 Gongqing Forest Park.
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.
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3274653) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 7,768 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 | Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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