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Kluisbos

FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0

29% trees around it and 1,203 species recorded.

43Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km29%
  • wild within 10 km42%
  • species recorded1,203
  • Altitude125 m

The forest around

29% 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 72%Grassland 19%Cropland 10%Trees 24%Grassland 26%Water 0%Cropland 42%Built-up 8%Trees 15%Grassland 27%Water 1%Cropland 49%Built-up 8%Trees 15%Grassland 25%Water 0%Cropland 52%Built-up 7%29%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km72%
  • 1–3 km24%
  • 3–6 km15%
  • 6–10 km15%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees24%
  • Grassland26%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland42%
  • Built-up8%

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

1,203 species recorded.

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

Common Bluebell
Common BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta435 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ribwort plantain
Ribwort plantainPlantago lanceolata410 recordssannse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus408 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hairy cat's ear
Hairy cat's earHypochaeris radicata395 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common Sorrel
Common SorrelRumex acetosa393 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
False Oat-grass
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius378 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Common buttercup
Common buttercupRanunculus acris370 recordsAlinja · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sweet vernal grass
Sweet vernal grassAnthoxanthum odoratum368 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common mouse-ear chickweed
Common mouse-ear chickweedCerastium fontanum367 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lathraea clandestina
Lathraea clandestinaLathraea clandestina366 recordsMeneerke bloem · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild Carrot
Wild CarrotDaucus carota336 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens335 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

43out of 100

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

  • 29%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 42%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,203Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 125 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan6°0°69 mm
  2. Feb7°0°60 mm
  3. Mar10°2°55 mm
  4. Apr15°4°38 mm
  5. May18°8°59 mm
  6. Jun21°11°64 mm
  7. Jul23°13°76 mm
  8. Aug22°13°81 mm
  9. Sep20°10°57 mm
  10. Oct15°7°67 mm
  11. Nov10°4°73 mm
  12. Dec6°1°79 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kluisbos.

Forest in Kluisbergen, Belgium

Kluisbos is a forest in Belgium.

Seen from space, 29% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 42% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,203 species have been recorded around it: 868 plants, 76 fungi, 232 birds and 27 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common Bluebell, Ribwort plantain and Yorkshire-fog.

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

Kluisbos 15
FrDr · 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.

Kluisbos 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

  • 166marked trails within 5 kmGR 122 Scheldeland, Panoramaroute, Streek-GR Vlaamse Ardennen and 163 more
  • 4named and notable trees within 6 kmDe Linde, Saule Pleureur and 2 more
  • 17picnic sites within 4 km
  • 78shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmMaison des randonneurs du Mont-de-l'Enclus
  • 44car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmCamping Panorama, Au pied du Trieu, Camperterrein 't Rosco and 5 more
  • 48places to stay within 10 kmAstoria, In de Vlaamse Ardennen, Hotond Sporthotel and 45 more
  • 16restaurants 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 Kluisbos.

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.

Peakyas77 mountains within 25 km
Kluisberg93 m · 1.1 kmPaterberg80 m · 3.4 kmTiegemberg82 m · 7.1 kmKoppenberg78 m · 7.4 kmTaaienberg90 m · 9.1 kmMuziekberg145 m · 9.1 kmEikenberg82 m · 11 kmMolenberg56 m · 24 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.

Kluisbos 01
FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Kluisbos

Belgium

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 29%Trees
  • 42%Wild
  • 1,203Species

Forêt de Mormal

France · 64 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 1,164Species

See the guide

Sonian Forest

Belgium · 66 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 1,917Species

See the guide

Forest of Bonsecours

Belgium · 31 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 1,479Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2222918) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species166,927 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

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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