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Lankester Botanical Garden

Sairen42 · CC BY-SA 3.0

39% trees around it and 356 species recorded.

60Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km39%
  • wild within 10 km85%
  • species recorded356
  • Altitude1,362 m

The forest around

39% 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 23%Grassland 50%Bare ground 2%Built-up 25%Trees 41%Grassland 29%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 29%Trees 54%Grassland 26%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 19%Trees 60%Grassland 28%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 8%39%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km23%
  • 1–3 km41%
  • 3–6 km54%
  • 6–10 km60%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees41%
  • Grassland29%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up29%

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

356 species recorded.

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

Crested anoda
Crested anodaAnoda cristata11 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Seashore vervain
Seashore vervainVerbena litoralis9 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major7 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Ctenanthe amabilis
Ctenanthe amabilisCtenanthe amabilis5 recordsPhoto by David J. Stang · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rough Mexican clover
Rough Mexican cloverRichardia scabra5 recordsFlorimagix · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tropical whiteweed
Tropical whiteweedAgeratum conyzoides5 recordsMinghong · CC BY-SA 3.0
Broadleaf carpetgrass
Broadleaf carpetgrassAxonopus compressus4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Bloodflower
BloodflowerAsclepias curassavica4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Fall Panic Grass
Fall Panic GrassPanicum dichotomiflorum3 recordsShow ryu . · CC BY-SA 3.0
NT
Croton hoffmanniiCroton hoffmannii20 records
Callisia purpurascensCallisia purpurascens6 records
Croton ortholobusCroton ortholobus6 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

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

  • 39%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 85%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 356Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,362 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to March.

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

  1. Jan22°16°119 mm
  2. Feb23°16°70 mm
  3. Mar24°16°76 mm
  4. Apr25°17°117 mm
  5. May25°18°243 mm
  6. Jun24°18°239 mm
  7. Jul23°18°253 mm
  8. Aug24°18°214 mm
  9. Sep24°18°231 mm
  10. Oct23°18°285 mm
  11. Nov23°17°258 mm
  12. Dec22°17°162 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lankester Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Costa Rica

Lankester Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Costa Rica, 1,362 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 39% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 85% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

356 species have been recorded around it: 55 plants, 1 fungi, 298 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Crested anoda, Seashore vervain and Greater Plantain.

The best time to walk is from January to March.

Orchids-Lankester
Sairen42 · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Lankester 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

  • 6picnic sites within 4 kmRancho Don Eugenio and 5 more
  • 7shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmMirador de Orosi
  • 39car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmCabaña Armonia del Bosque, Cabaña MasRoser, Copete de Pepe and 1 more
  • 50places to stay within 10 kmCabinas, Sanchiri Lodge, Casa Mora B&b and 47 more
  • 84restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Lankester 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.

Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Cerro Palo Blanco5.6 kmCerro Tablazo15 kmIrazú Volcano3,432 m · volcano · 16 kmLas Nubes16 kmCerro Abejonal23 kmAlto del Común23 kmCerro Roble25 kmCerro Daser25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lake Cachí0.4 km² · 8.5 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.

Lankester Japanese Garden
Rquesada · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jardin-Lankester-Exterior
Sairen42 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Neomoorea wallisii 1
Franz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Lankester Botanical Garden

Costa Rica

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 85%Wild
  • 356Species

Las Cruces biological station and Wilson botanical garden

Costa Rica · 155 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 1,404Species

See the guide

Parque Zoológico Nacional Simón Bolívar

Costa Rica · 23 km

  • 33Forestyas Score
  • 10%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • 478Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3369639) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species31,916 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, Lakeyas

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

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