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ColombiaDominican Republic Colombia / Dominican Republic arboretum

Jardín Botanico

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0

70% trees around it and 268 species recorded.

77Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km70%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded268
  • Altitude1,505 m

The forest around

70% 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 58%Grassland 9%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 31%Trees 71%Grassland 19%Built-up 9%Trees 69%Grassland 17%Bare ground 0%Built-up 14%Trees 71%Grassland 26%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 3%70%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km58%
  • 1–3 km71%
  • 3–6 km69%
  • 6–10 km71%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees71%
  • Grassland19%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up9%

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

268 species recorded.

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

Macawflower
MacawflowerHeliconia bihai10 recordsWicki · CC0
Juba's bush
Juba's bushIresine diffusa7 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 4.0
Scarletbush
ScarletbushHamelia patens6 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Heliconia trichocarpa
Heliconia trichocarpaHeliconia trichocarpa5 recordsPhoto by David J. Stang · CC BY-SA 4.0
Heliconia griggsiana
Heliconia griggsianaHeliconia griggsiana4 recordsDick Culbert · CC BY 2.0
Expanded lobsterclaw
Expanded lobsterclawHeliconia latispatha4 recordsJustin Lebar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Black-eyed Susan vine
Black-eyed Susan vineThunbergia alata3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Norfolk Island AraucariaVU
Norfolk Island AraucariaAraucaria heterophylla2 recordsbertknot from scarborough, australia · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maranta gibbaMaranta gibba4 records
Dieffenbachia oerstediiDieffenbachia oerstedii4 records
Miconia notabilisMiconia notabilis4 records
Miconia coronataMiconia coronata4 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

77out of 100

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

  • 70%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 268Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,505 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in January and from June to August.

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

  1. Jan19°11°87 mm
  2. Feb20°12°104 mm
  3. Mar19°12°145 mm
  4. Apr19°12°193 mm
  5. May19°11°168 mm
  6. Jun19°10°113 mm
  7. Jul19°10°90 mm
  8. Aug19°10°92 mm
  9. Sep20°10°110 mm
  10. Oct19°11°194 mm
  11. Nov19°11°191 mm
  12. Dec19°11°146 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Jardín Botanico.

Environmental education center in Calarcá, Colombia

Jardín Botanico is an arboretum in Colombia, 1,505 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 70% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

268 species have been recorded around it: 48 plants, 0 fungi, 219 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Macawflower, Juba's bush and Scarletbush.

The best time to walk is in January and from June to August.

Fuente de Neptuno, Antiguo Jardín Botánico, Múnich, Alemania, 2015-07-04, DD 12
Diego Delso · 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.

Jardín Botanico 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmPaso intermedio
  • 3picnic sites within 4 kmClub de Tiro, Caza y Pesca
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 21viewpoints within 5 km2000 msnm, Mirador de La Secreta, Torre Mirador and 18 more
  • 255car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmRoca Dragón
  • 134places to stay within 10 kmVoláre Hotel, Bolívar Plaza, Placer and 131 more
  • 159restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Jardín Botanico.

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.

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Alto Guacas5.0 kmMonte Redondo8.5 kmAlto Pizco12 kmCuchilla San Lorenzo17 kmCerro Teta21 kmCerro Pempa24 kmMorro Gacho24 kmAlto La Ribera24 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.

Ferocactus glaucescens, Jardín Botánico, Múnich, Alemania 2012-04-21, DD 01
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo - Gran Canaria - 01
H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo - Gran Canaria - 02
H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Jardín Botanico

Colombia

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 268Species

Botanical Garden of Medellín

Colombia · 196 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 494Species

See the guide

Bogotá Botanical Garden

Colombia · 173 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 11%Trees
  • 33%Wild
  • 486Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6159869) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species14,932 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

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

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