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BhutanNepalPakistan Bhutan / Nepal / Pakistan forest

Himalayan subtropical pine forests

Saifuser · CC BY-SA 4.0

78% trees around it and 277 species recorded.

79Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km78%
  • wild within 10 km97%
  • species recorded277
  • Altitude2,123 m

The forest around

78% 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 72%Grassland 1%Bare ground 1%Built-up 26%Trees 78%Grassland 9%Bare ground 0%Built-up 12%Trees 78%Grassland 18%Bare ground 0%Built-up 3%Trees 79%Grassland 19%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%78%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km72%
  • 1–3 km78%
  • 3–6 km78%
  • 6–10 km79%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees78%
  • Grassland9%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up12%

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

277 species recorded.

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

Kidney bean
Kidney beanPhaseolus vulgaris25 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild Himalayan Cherry
Wild Himalayan CherryPrunus cerasoides10 recordsPatcharapapats · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common barley
Common barleyHordeum vulgare9 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Zombi pea
Zombi peaVigna vexillata7 recordsJayesh Patil from Mumbai, India · CC BY 2.0
Quercus floribunda
Quercus floribundaQuercus floribunda6 recordsGv3101992 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adzuki bean
Adzuki beanVigna angularis6 recordsSanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blackeyed pea
Blackeyed peaVigna unguiculata6 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Apple of Peru
Apple of PeruNicandra physalodes6 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. ArtMechanic assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Quercus leucotrichophora
Quercus leucotrichophoraQuercus leucotrichophora5 recordsTangopaso · Public domain
Persicaria capitata
Persicaria capitataPersicaria capitata5 recordsJJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Weeping bottlebrush
Weeping bottlebrushCallistemon viminalis5 recordsPëter 1968 User:Peter Greenwell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blue Pine
Blue PinePinus wallichiana5 recordsSudan Shrestha · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

79out of 100

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

  • 78%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 97%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 277Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,123 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in December.

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

  1. Jan17°5°40 mm
  2. Feb20°7°45 mm
  3. Mar25°12°42 mm
  4. Apr32°17°32 mm
  5. May36°22°42 mm
  6. Jun36°24°140 mm
  7. Jul32°24°281 mm
  8. Aug29°22°282 mm
  9. Sep28°20°158 mm
  10. Oct26°15°12 mm
  11. Nov22°10°8 mm
  12. Dec19°6°13 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Himalayan subtropical pine forests.

Ecoregion in Asia

Himalayan subtropical pine forests is a forest in Bhutan, 2,123 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 78% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 97% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

277 species have been recorded around it: 52 plants, 8 fungi, 215 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Kidney bean, Wild Himalayan Cherry and Common barley.

The best time to walk is in December.

At the top of Murree Hills
Saifuser · 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.

Himalayan subtropical pine 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

  • 5shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 km
  • 14car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmThe Glide Inn, Hail Himalayas Eco Tourism Camping, Book A Camp 015, Hail Himalayas
  • 98places to stay within 10 kmClarke's Hotel, Hotel Combermere, Hotel Willow Bank and 95 more
  • 34restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres 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 Himalayan subtropical pine forests.

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.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Jakko1.2 kmBhaili8.3 kmMadog11 kmPadwal12 kmGol Tibbi14 kmKhadiyan17 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.

Shimla view
Shyamal L. · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Himalayan subtropical pine forests

Bhutan

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 78%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 277Species

Bagh-e-Jinnah

Pakistan · 274 km

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 17%Trees
  • 19%Wild
  • 54Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2080789) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species29,895 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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