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Chile Chile arboretum

Jardín Botánico Chagual

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

25% trees around it and 142 species recorded.

35Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km25%
  • wild within 10 km42%
  • species recorded142
  • Altitude699 m

The forest around

25% 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 25%Shrubland 35%Grassland 9%Water 1%Bare ground 5%Built-up 25%Trees 25%Shrubland 10%Grassland 6%Water 0%Bare ground 3%Cropland 2%Built-up 55%Trees 14%Shrubland 11%Grassland 7%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 66%Trees 14%Shrubland 16%Grassland 12%Bare ground 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 55%25%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km25%
  • 1–3 km25%
  • 3–6 km14%
  • 6–10 km14%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees25%
  • Shrubland10%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground3%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up55%

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

142 species recorded.

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

California poppy
California poppyEschscholzia californica24 recordsKaldari · CC0
Tree tobacco
Tree tobaccoNicotiana glauca11 recordsMiwasatoshi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Soapbark
SoapbarkQuillaja saponaria9 recordspenarc · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vachellia caven
Vachellia cavenVachellia caven9 recordsMalena Lorente · CC BY 4.0
Opium Poppy
Opium PoppyPapaver somniferum7 recordstanja niggendijker from apeldoorn, the netherlands · CC BY 2.0
Chilean jessamine
Chilean jessamineCestrum parqui7 recordsJM92 · CC BY 3.0
Silver Wattle
Silver WattleAcacia dealbata7 recordsDonald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY 2.0
Horehound
HorehoundMarrubium vulgare6 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Colliguaja odorifera
Colliguaja odoriferaColliguaja odorifera6 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mayten
MaytenMaytenus boaria6 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Roblespepe assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
Small Nettle
Small NettleUrtica urens6 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Castor oil plant
Castor oil plantRicinus communis6 recordsNolege · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

35out of 100

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

  • 25%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 42%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 142Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 699 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan30°14°8 mm
  2. Feb29°14°8 mm
  3. Mar27°12°10 mm
  4. Apr23°9°12 mm
  5. May19°6°44 mm
  6. Jun15°3°63 mm
  7. Jul14°2°47 mm
  8. Aug16°3°40 mm
  9. Sep19°5°15 mm
  10. Oct22°7°12 mm
  11. Nov26°10°9 mm
  12. Dec28°13°6 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Jardín Botánico Chagual.

Jardín Botánico Chagual is an arboretum in Chile, 699 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 25% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 42% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

142 species have been recorded around it: 48 plants, 0 fungi, 93 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: California poppy, Tree tobacco and Soapbark.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Jardín Botánico Chagual seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Jardín Botánico Chagual 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

  • 15marked trails within 5 kmSendero Peatonal Atacameño, Sendero Cerro El Carbón, Sendero Mapuche and 12 more
  • 9named and notable trees within 6 kmPalmera, Phoenix canariensis, bugambilia, Quillaja saponaria and 6 more
  • 8picnic sites within 4 kmPicnic Tupahue, Zona de Picnic Ermitaño Alto, Picnic Los Canelos and 5 more
  • 8shelters and huts within 6 kmOdeón and 7 more
  • 69viewpoints within 5 kmInstituto Comercial Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins, Terraza Caupolicán, Terraza Neptuno and 66 more
  • 19visitor centres within 6 kmInfocenter, ParqueMet Pedro de Valdivia Norte, Centro de Visitantes Bosque Cumbre and 16 more
  • 290car parks within 3 km
  • 352places to stay within 10 kmNH Collection Hotels, Los Españoles, Door's and 349 more
  • 814restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Jardín Botánico Chagual.

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.

Peakyas75 mountains within 25 km
Cerro San Cristóbal880 m · 3.4 kmSanta Lucía Hill5.3 kmCerro Alvarado1,022 m · 7.7 kmCerro del Medio1,011 m · 9.4 kmCerro Renca9.8 kmCerro Navia515 m · 11 kmCerro Provincia2,750 m · 16 kmCerro La Ballena877 m · 23 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Manuel Foster ObservatoryBortle 9 · 3.1 kmNational Astronomical ObservatoryBortle 8 · 6.6 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Pablo Neruda Amphitheater0.3 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Apoquindo Waterfall14 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Jardín Botánico Chagual

Chile

  • 35Forestyas Score
  • 25%Trees
  • 42%Wild
  • 142Species

Jardín Botánico Nacional de Viña del Mar

Chile · 92 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 32%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 176Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3456566) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species41,849 open records within 2 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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