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Košutnjak

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57% trees around it and 387 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km57%
  • wild within 10 km58%
  • species recorded387
  • Altitude168 m

The forest around

57% 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 86%Grassland 2%Bare ground 2%Cropland 0%Built-up 10%Trees 54%Grassland 3%Cropland 0%Built-up 42%Trees 38%Grassland 10%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 6%Built-up 40%Trees 39%Grassland 13%Water 6%Bare ground 1%Cropland 17%Built-up 24%57%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km86%
  • 1–3 km54%
  • 3–6 km38%
  • 6–10 km39%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees54%
  • Grassland3%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up42%

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

387 species recorded.

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

Ruscus aculeatus
Ruscus aculeatusRuscus aculeatus44 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Vista~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus32 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata31 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea27 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Spotted henbit
Spotted henbitLamium maculatum22 recordsTomasz Kuran aka Meteor2017 · CC BY 2.5
Rose of Sharon
Rose of SharonHibiscus syriacus22 recordsWilhelm Zimmerling PAR · CC BY-SA 4.0
Field Maple
Field MapleAcer campestre22 recordsWillow · CC BY-SA 2.5
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus20 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima20 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Periwinkle
PeriwinkleVinca minor18 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum18 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba17 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 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.

55out of 100

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

  • 57%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 58%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 387Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 168 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan3°-4°48 mm
  2. Feb6°-3°46 mm
  3. Mar12°1°50 mm
  4. Apr18°7°50 mm
  5. May23°12°78 mm
  6. Jun28°16°83 mm
  7. Jul31°18°63 mm
  8. Aug31°18°55 mm
  9. Sep25°13°56 mm
  10. Oct18°7°54 mm
  11. Nov12°2°46 mm
  12. Dec5°-2°47 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Košutnjak.

Park-forest and neighborhood of Belgrade

Košutnjak is a forest in Serbia.

Seen from space, 57% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 58% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

387 species have been recorded around it: 208 plants, 12 fungi, 161 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ruscus aculeatus, Greater Celandine and Garlic Mustard.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Kosutnjak Nemacki 1
Unknown author · Public domain

Get there and walk

  • Camping Center Belgradecampsite · 7.7 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Belgrade Boutique Houseplace to stay · 1.3 km · 307 within 10 km
  • Filmski Gradnearest town · 0.9 km in a straight line
  • Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at BEG airport (Belgrade)Discover 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.

Košutnjak 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmMarkirana staza, E4: Beograd (Krnjača) – Osipaonica, ST401 Belgrade - Avala and 1 more
  • 15named and notable trees within 6 kmСпоменик природе Платан код Милошевог конака, Тиса у Пожешкој, Тиса у Ботићевој and 12 more
  • 159picnic sites within 4 km
  • 79shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 16viewpoints within 5 kmВидиковац, Belgrade 360 Deck and 14 more
  • 7visitor centres within 6 kmИнформације, Туристички информативни центар, Guest Services and 4 more
  • 689car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmCamping Center Belgrade
  • 307places to stay within 10 kmBelgrade Boutique House, Ferrit, Allegra and 304 more
  • 228restaurants 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 Košutnjak.

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.

Peakyas127 mountains within 25 km
Vračar plateau2.2 kmTopčidersko Brdo2.8 kmVeliki Vračar7.1 kmAvala511 m · 10 kmMali Vis274 m · 13 kmZbeg14 kmUmnjanski Vis122 m · 14 kmVis24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Veliko Blato1.9 km² · 12 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Avala511 m · 10 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.

Jesen u Kosutnjaku
Magyshadow · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hajdučka česma, Košutnjak, Beograd
Vladakul · CC BY-SA 4.0
Atmosfera zimskog jutra u Košutnjaku
Petkovic Boris · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Košutnjak

Serbia

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 57%Trees
  • 58%Wild
  • 387Species

Banjica Forest

Serbia · 3 km

  • 53Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 403Species

See the guide

Jevremovac botanic garden

Serbia · 6 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 22%Trees
  • 53%Wild
  • 178Species

See the guide

Ambassadors' Alley

Bosnia and Herzegovina · 188 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 62%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 380Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3107151) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species118,627 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas

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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