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Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex

Manoonp · CC BY-SA 3.0

100% trees around it and 393 species recorded.

90Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildBirdsWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded393
  • Altitude532 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.

100%trees · 3 km

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

393 species recorded.

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

Ilex micrococca
Ilex micrococcaIlex micrococca6 recordsAlpsdake · CC BY-SA 4.0
Symplocos cochinchinensis
Symplocos cochinchinensisSymplocos cochinchinensis6 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Syzygium albiflorum
Syzygium albiflorumSyzygium albiflorum5 recordsLannafolium · CC0
Pacific island flatsedge
Pacific island flatsedgeCyperus cyperoides3 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 3.0
Dioscorea dauneaDioscorea daunea7 records
Trichosanthes villosaTrichosanthes villosa7 records
Lithocarpus echinopsLithocarpus echinops6 records
Elaeocarpus griffithiiElaeocarpus griffithii5 records
Symplocos sumuntiaSymplocos sumuntia5 records
SchimaSchima wallichii5 records
Ficus chartaceaFicus chartacea5 records
Crypteronia paniculataCrypteronia paniculata5 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

90out of 100

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
  • 393Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 532 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in December.

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

  1. Jan28°17°24 mm
  2. Feb30°19°11 mm
  3. Mar32°20°56 mm
  4. Apr33°22°59 mm
  5. May30°22°142 mm
  6. Jun28°22°137 mm
  7. Jul28°21°149 mm
  8. Aug28°21°128 mm
  9. Sep27°21°194 mm
  10. Oct27°21°270 mm
  11. Nov27°20°81 mm
  12. Dec26°17°13 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex.

Forest area in western Thailand, World Heritage site

Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex is a forest in Thailand, 532 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.

393 species have been recorded around it: 78 plants, 0 fungi, 303 birds and 12 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ilex micrococca, Symplocos cochinchinensis and Syzygium albiflorum.

The best time to walk is in December.

Kaeng Krachan (3)
Manoonp · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex 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 kmจุดชมวิวพะเนินทุ่ง
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmศูนย์บริการนักท่องเที่ยว เขาพะเนินทุ่ง
  • 2campsites within 10 kmพะเนินทุ่งแคมป์, บ้านกร่างแคมป์
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 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.

In our other atlases

Around Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex.

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.

Peakyas12 mountains within 25 km
Khao Phanoen Thung3.0 kmKhao Sam Yot15 kmKhao Phu Khem19 kmPalan Taung1,019 m · 21 kmYage Taung978 m · 22 kmYekye Tong828 m · 22 kmNgayanni Kyauk Taung1,330 m · 23 kmKhao Loi25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Nam Tok Tho Thip10 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.

Kaeng Krachan
JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Paguma-larvata-masked-palm-civet-kaeng-krachan-national-park
Rushenb · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kaeng Krachan National Park
Pichetveerachai · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex

Thailand

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 393Species

Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden

Thailand · 167 km

  • 56Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 127Species

See the guide

Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex

Thailand · 329 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 1Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q37636297) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species29,702 open records within 5 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, 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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