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Kenting National Forest Recreation Area

WEI, WAN-CHEN · CC BY-SA 4.0

80% trees around it and 876 species recorded.

84Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km80%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded876
  • Altitude209 m

The forest around

80% 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 95%Grassland 2%Cropland 0%Built-up 2%Trees 78%Grassland 10%Water 7%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 3%Trees 42%Grassland 5%Water 50%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%Trees 36%Grassland 4%Water 53%Cropland 4%Built-up 3%80%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km95%
  • 1–3 km78%
  • 3–6 km42%
  • 6–10 km36%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees78%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water7%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up3%

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

876 species recorded.

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

Sensitive Plant
Sensitive PlantMimosa pudica103 recordsSteve Fitzgerald · CC BY-SA 4.0
Light-blue snakeweed
Light-blue snakeweedStachytarpheta jamaicensis97 recordsDevanand Pillai · CC BY-SA 3.0
Guava
GuavaPsidium guajava85 recordsChirocca77 · CC0
Lantana
LantanaLantana camara83 recordsروتانا · CC BY 4.0
White leadtree
White leadtreeLeucaena leucocephala74 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
White moneywort
White moneywortAlysicarpus vaginalis72 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Grona triflora
Grona trifloraGrona triflora70 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Small White Morning Glory
Small White Morning GloryIpomoea obscura67 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY-SA 4.0
Little ironweed
Little ironweedCyanthillium cinereum66 recordsJeevan Jose, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spadeleaf
SpadeleafCentella asiatica60 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Threelobe false mallow
Threelobe false mallowMalvastrum coromandelianum58 recordsJuan Carlos Fonseca Mata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Small Philippine acacia
Small Philippine acaciaAcacia confusa54 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

84out of 100

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

  • 80%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 876Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 209 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February.

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

  1. Jan23°22°33 mm
  2. Feb24°22°29 mm
  3. Mar25°23°37 mm
  4. Apr27°25°50 mm
  5. May28°27°161 mm
  6. Jun29°28°251 mm
  7. Jul29°28°258 mm
  8. Aug29°28°388 mm
  9. Sep29°28°230 mm
  10. Oct28°26°87 mm
  11. Nov26°25°62 mm
  12. Dec24°22°47 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kenting National Forest Recreation Area.

Forest in Pingtung County

Kenting National Forest Recreation Area is a forest in Taiwan, 209 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 80% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

876 species have been recorded around it: 523 plants, 52 fungi, 292 birds and 9 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sensitive Plant, Light-blue snakeweed and Guava.

The best time to walk is from January to February.

Kenting National Forest Recreation Area entrance WEI, WAN-CHEN
WEI, WAN-CHEN · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Camping areacampsite · 2.7 km · 7 within 10 km
  • 花園鰻place to stay · 2.0 km · 151 within 10 km
  • Hengchunnearest town · 8.6 km in a straight line
  • Lanyu Airport (KYD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 75 km in a straight lineCar hire in KaohsiungDiscover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Kenting National Forest Recreation Area 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 km台灣小百岳
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 km茄苳巨木, 銀葉板根
  • 2shelters and huts within 6 km五分亭
  • 13viewpoints within 5 km凌霄亭, 船帆石觀景點, 香蕉灣 and 10 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 km遊客中心, 小灣遊客服務中心, 旅宿中心 and 1 more
  • 36car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmCamping area, 六福山莊, 蒙馬羅露營農莊 and 4 more
  • 151places to stay within 10 km花園鰻, Kenting Ark Hotel 墾丁, 悠閒民宿 and 148 more
  • 21restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Kenting National Forest Recreation Area.

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.

Peakyas48 mountains within 25 km
Santai Shan503 m · 8.4 kmNanren Shan380 m · 14 kmBayao Shan410 m · 16 kmWuchongxi Shan377 m · 16 kmJiupeng Shan345 m · 17 kmWenzhao Shan650 m · 20 kmGangzi Shan385 m · 21 kmMudanwan Shan372 m · 24 km
Islandyasthe island
Taiwan Island35,883 km²
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Yuanshan Wan2.1 kmNanwan Youqiqu4.9 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Longluan Lake1.0 km² · 7.6 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Mountain-Ocean Waterfall8.5 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.

Kenting Forest Recreation Area entrance 20091002
Ethan Chan H C · CC BY 2.0
Kenting National Forest Recreation Area entrance 2013-01-31
lienyuan lee · CC BY 3.0
Looking up the entrance gate of Kenting National Forest Recreation Area
dennis · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Kenting National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 876Species

Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 29 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 450Species

See the guide

Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 84 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 303Species

See the guide

Xitou Nature Education Area

Taiwan · 191 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 859Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q10931418) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species141,195 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Lakeyas, Cascadyas

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
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