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Cuba Cuba arboretum

Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos

Anagoria · CC BY 3.0

82% trees around it and 218 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km82%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded218
  • Altitude57 m

The forest around

82% 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 83%Grassland 11%Cropland 5%Built-up 1%Trees 82%Grassland 13%Cropland 4%Built-up 1%Trees 80%Shrubland 0%Grassland 14%Wetland 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%Trees 68%Mangroves 3%Grassland 21%Wetland 0%Water 3%Cropland 4%Built-up 1%82%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km83%
  • 1–3 km82%
  • 3–6 km80%
  • 6–10 km68%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees82%
  • Mangroves0%
  • Grassland13%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up1%

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

218 species recorded.

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

Bodywood
BodywoodBourreria succulenta14 recordsKATHERINE WAGNER-REISS · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cannonball tree
Cannonball treeCouroupita guianensis5 recordsRanjithsiji · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild sisal
Wild sisalFurcraea selloana4 recordsDinkum · CC0
St. Thomas tree
St. Thomas treeBauhinia tomentosa4 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nandi Flame
Nandi FlameSpathodea campanulata4 recordsSteven Haw · CC BY 2.0
Swartzia cubensis
Swartzia cubensisSwartzia cubensis4 recordsLeonora Enking from West Sussex, England · CC BY-SA 2.0
Giant Air Plant
Giant Air PlantTillandsia fasciculata3 recordsKatka Nemcokova · CC BY-SA 3.0
Silk cottontree
Silk cottontreeCochlospermum vitifolium3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Satinleaf
SatinleafChrysophyllum oliviforme3 recordsKATHERINE WAGNER-REISS · CC BY-SA 4.0
Star apple
Star appleChrysophyllum cainito3 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Hans B.~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claim · Public domain
Teak
TeakTectona grandis3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Bastardcedar
BastardcedarGuazuma ulmifolia3 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

83out of 100

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

  • 82%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 218Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 57 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to February.

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

  1. Jan27°20°13 mm
  2. Feb28°21°16 mm
  3. Mar29°22°13 mm
  4. Apr31°23°22 mm
  5. May31°25°61 mm
  6. Jun31°26°72 mm
  7. Jul32°26°62 mm
  8. Aug32°27°83 mm
  9. Sep32°26°84 mm
  10. Oct31°25°75 mm
  11. Nov29°23°22 mm
  12. Dec28°22°18 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 de Cienfuegos.

Botanic garden

Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos is an arboretum in Cuba.

Seen from space, 82% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

218 species have been recorded around it: 93 plants, 13 fungi, 111 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bodywood, Cannonball tree and Wild sisal.

The best time to walk is from December to February.

2012-02 botanic garden Cienfuegos anagoria 02
Anagoria · CC BY 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Perla Surplace to stay · 9.8 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Cienfuegosnearest town · 13 km in a straight line
  • Jaime Gonzalez Airport (CFG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 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.

Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos 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

  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 8places to stay within 10 kmPerla Sur, Casa Miguelito, La Esperanza and 5 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 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 Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos.

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.

Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Loma Santa Lucía11 kmPico Blanco18 kmLoma San José20 kmCabeza del Muerto20 kmLoma Quivicán21 kmPico La Cuevita22 kmPico San Juan24 kmLoma San Juan24 km
Islandyasthe island
Cuba105,806 km²
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Ensenada del Caunao9.2 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Laguna Guanaroca1.0 km² · 9.8 kmLaguna El Güiro0.2 km² · 12 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.

2012-02 botanic garden Cienfuegos anagoria 03
Anagoria · CC BY 3.0
Botanischer Garten Cienfuegos 02
Burkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Botanischer Garten Cienfuegos 05
Burkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos

Cuba

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 218Species

Jardín botánico Nacional de Cuba

Cuba · 228 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 53%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 443Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3456929) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species10,220 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Lakeyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here