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Kaive Oak

Edgars Košovojs · CC BY-SA 4.0

40% of the land around it is trees.

  • trees within 3 km40%
  • wild within 10 km81%
  • Altitude61 m

The forest around

40% 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 51%Grassland 29%Cropland 17%Built-up 2%Trees 39%Grassland 26%Wetland 1%Water 1%Cropland 33%Built-up 0%Trees 52%Grassland 24%Wetland 1%Water 1%Cropland 21%Built-up 0%Trees 60%Grassland 23%Wetland 1%Water 0%Cropland 16%Built-up 0%40%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km51%
  • 1–3 km39%
  • 3–6 km52%
  • 6–10 km60%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees39%
  • Grassland26%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland33%
  • Built-up0%

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.

32out of 100

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

  • 40%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 81%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 61 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan-2°-6°50 mm
  2. Feb-2°-7°40 mm
  3. Mar3°-4°39 mm
  4. Apr10°1°40 mm
  5. May16°7°45 mm
  6. Jun20°11°66 mm
  7. Jul22°14°71 mm
  8. Aug22°14°71 mm
  9. Sep17°9°52 mm
  10. Oct10°4°66 mm
  11. Nov4°1°63 mm
  12. Dec1°-3°54 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kaive Oak.

Remarkable oak in Latvia

Kaive Oak is a notable tree in Latvia.

Seen from space, 40% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 81% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

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

Kaives Senču ozols
Edgars Košovojs · 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.

Kaive Oak 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmKaives Senču ozols
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmVāgnera, Āža kalns and 3 more
  • 5places to stay within 10 kmCyclists' Guest House, Mucenieki, Jaunmoku pils and 2 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Kaive Oak.

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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
highest point of Engure parish25 m · 9.8 kmMilzukalns13 kmLustūžkalns72 m · 17 kmNorthern hill100 m · 20 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Sēmes Ezers0.5 km² · 3.1 kmSeklis0.4 km² · 8.9 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.

Kaive oak - thickest tree in Eastern Europe - panoramio
Laima Gūtmane (simka… · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kaives ozols - panoramio (1)
BirdsEyeLV · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kaives Senču ozola zīme
Edgars Košovojs · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Kaive Oak

Latvia

  • 32Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • —Species

Šmerlis

Latvia · 73 km

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 53%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 259Species

See the guide

National Botanic Garden of Latvia

Latvia · 84 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 503Species

See the guide

Biķernieki Forest

Latvia · 73 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 284Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4208586) · 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Birdyas

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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