DR Congo forest
Ituri rainforest
Jitze Couperus · CC BY 2.0
100% trees around it and 4 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km100%
- wild within 10 km100%
- species recorded4
- Altitude802 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.
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.
Who lives here
4 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).
- 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 4Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 802 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from June to August and from December to January.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan18°50 mm
- Feb19°82 mm
- Mar20°172 mm
- Apr20°191 mm
- May19°162 mm
- Jun19°119 mm
- Jul18°99 mm
- Aug19°147 mm
- Sep19°182 mm
- Oct19°198 mm
- Nov19°195 mm
- Dec19°84 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Ituri rainforest.
Rainforest in northeastern DR Congo
Ituri rainforest is a forest in DR Congo, 802 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.
4 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Parinari excelsa, Strombosia grandifolia and Sabicea calycina.
The best time to walk is from June to August and from December to January.
Get there and walk
- Matari Airport (IRP)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 171 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
- 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.
Other forests nearby.
Ituri rainforest
DR Congo
- 67Forestyas Score
- 100%Trees
- 100%Wild
- 4Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q847368) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 25 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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