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Kinshasa botanical garden

Leon Bilili · CC BY-SA 4.0

5% trees around it and 713 species recorded.

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ArboretumWildlife

  • trees within 3 km5%
  • wild within 10 km48%
  • species recorded713
  • Altitude287 m

The forest around

5% 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 5%Built-up 95%Trees 5%Grassland 4%Water 34%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 56%Trees 5%Shrubland 0%Grassland 5%Wetland 2%Water 42%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 44%Trees 10%Shrubland 1%Grassland 8%Wetland 8%Water 19%Bare ground 0%Cropland 5%Built-up 48%5%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km5%
  • 1–3 km5%
  • 3–6 km5%
  • 6–10 km10%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees5%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland4%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water34%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up56%

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

713 species recorded.

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

Haspan flatsedge
Haspan flatsedgeCyperus haspan16 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Pacific island flatsedge
Pacific island flatsedgeCyperus cyperoides15 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 3.0
Indian goosegrass
Indian goosegrassEleusine indica14 recordsTauʻolunga · CC BY-SA 3.0
Crystalbark
CrystalbarkCrossopteryx febrifuga13 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Psorospermum febrifugum
Psorospermum febrifugumPsorospermum febrifugum13 recordsRebecca Fowlds · CC BY-SA 3.0
Piedmont flatsedge
Piedmont flatsedgeCyperus distans12 recordsR. O. Gardner · CC BY 4.0
Flame lily
Flame lilyGloriosa superba12 recordsBrian Gratwicke · CC BY 2.0
Common wild sorghum
Common wild sorghumSorghum arundinaceum12 recordsZyance · CC BY-SA 3.0
East Indian bristlegrass
East Indian bristlegrassSetaria barbata12 recordsVengolis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Strychnos variabilisStrychnos variabilis18 records
Setaria restioideaSetaria restioidea18 records
Digitaria leptorhachisDigitaria leptorhachis17 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

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

  • 5%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 48%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 713Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 287 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan29°22°166 mm
  2. Feb29°22°165 mm
  3. Mar29°22°206 mm
  4. Apr29°22°207 mm
  5. May29°21°149 mm
  6. Jun29°19°14 mm
  7. Jul29°18°3 mm
  8. Aug30°20°13 mm
  9. Sep31°21°57 mm
  10. Oct30°22°176 mm
  11. Nov28°22°278 mm
  12. Dec28°21°249 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kinshasa botanical garden.

Botanical park located in kinshasa

Kinshasa botanical garden is an arboretum in DR Congo, 287 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 5% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 48% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

713 species have been recorded around it: 611 plants, 10 fungi, 72 birds and 20 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Haspan flatsedge, Pacific island flatsedge and Indian goosegrass.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

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Leon Bilili · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: PH,Mo-Su 08:30-17:30
  • orange digital centercampsite · 2.4 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Hôtel Sofioplace to stay · 0.5 km · 301 within 10 km
  • Kinshasanearest town · 2.0 km in a straight line
  • Maya-Maya International Airport (BZV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 9 km in a straight line

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.

Kinshasa botanical garden 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

  • 11shelters and huts within 6 kmLotala repos, Jamaïca and 9 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmLa Corniche, Laura K and 3 more
  • 21car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmorange digital center
  • 301places to stay within 10 kmHôtel Sofio, Hôtel Marika, Hôtel Le Voyageur - Elaïs and 298 more
  • 118restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Kinshasa botanical garden.

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.

Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Mont Leopold7.0 kmMont Rhooius10 kmMont Amba14 kmBoukiéro14 kmMont Ngafula645 m · 18 kmGafula18 kmMont Kintari20 kmMont Sabuka22 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Falls Regina9.7 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.

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Leon Bilili · CC BY-SA 4.0
Crocodile du Nil dans le jardin Botanique de Kinshasa
Reshlove · CC BY-SA 4.0
Crocodile du Nil dans le jardin botanique. (1)
Ndjalo007 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q16645065) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,519 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, 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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