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Jerada

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

14% of the land around it is trees.

25Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • Altitude1,046 m

The forest around

14% 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 4%Shrubland 3%Grassland 9%Bare ground 28%Built-up 55%Trees 16%Shrubland 14%Grassland 31%Bare ground 28%Cropland 1%Built-up 9%Trees 12%Shrubland 9%Grassland 50%Bare ground 23%Cropland 5%Built-up 2%Trees 8%Shrubland 16%Grassland 56%Bare ground 16%Cropland 4%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km4%
  • 1–3 km16%
  • 3–6 km12%
  • 6–10 km8%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees16%
  • Shrubland14%
  • Grassland31%
  • Bare ground28%
  • Cropland1%
  • 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.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

25out of 100

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

  • 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,046 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April.

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

  1. Jan12°1°61 mm
  2. Feb14°2°45 mm
  3. Mar17°4°49 mm
  4. Apr21°7°56 mm
  5. May25°10°39 mm
  6. Jun30°15°10 mm
  7. Jul35°19°6 mm
  8. Aug34°19°20 mm
  9. Sep28°15°35 mm
  10. Oct24°11°60 mm
  11. Nov16°5°71 mm
  12. Dec13°2°53 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Jerada.

City in Morocco

Jerada is a forest in Morocco, 1,046 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

The best time to walk is from March to April.

Jerada 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.

Jerada 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

  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 1places to stay within 10 km
  • 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
  • campsites 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.

In our other atlases

Around Jerada.

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.

Peakyas54 mountains within 25 km
Jorf el Mâaline7.8 kmJebel Tanezart18 kmTimejoujine19 kmJebel Samer21 kmGara Soltane21 kmJorf el Yhoudi21 kmToumzaït24 kmJorf Said24 km

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

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Morocco

  • 25Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • —Species

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  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 94Species

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Cèdre Gouraud

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  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 106Species

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Gibraltar Botanic Gardens

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  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 5%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 427Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2287316) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
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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