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Lavizan Forest Park

Milad Mosapoor · Attribution

26% trees around it and 139 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km26%
  • wild within 10 km50%
  • species recorded139
  • Altitude1,508 m

The forest around

26% 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%Shrubland 8%Grassland 2%Bare ground 2%Built-up 16%Trees 20%Shrubland 4%Grassland 5%Bare ground 4%Built-up 67%Trees 12%Shrubland 3%Grassland 13%Bare ground 3%Built-up 69%Trees 9%Shrubland 2%Grassland 39%Bare ground 9%Built-up 41%26%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km72%
  • 1–3 km20%
  • 3–6 km12%
  • 6–10 km9%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees20%
  • Shrubland4%
  • Grassland5%
  • Bare ground4%
  • Built-up67%

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

139 species recorded.

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

Lucerne
LucerneMedicago sativa5 recordsAmédée Masclef · Public domain
Sun spurge
Sun spurgeEuphorbia helioscopia3 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
German-madwort
German-madwortAsperugo procumbens2 recordsPetr Filippov · CC BY-SA 3.0
Silktree
SilktreeAlbizia julibrissin2 recordsCmapm · Public domain
Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Gray field speedwell
Gray field speedwellVeronica polita2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild Privet
Wild PrivetLigustrum vulgare2 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pomegranate
PomegranatePunica granatum2 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Narrow-leafed Ash
Narrow-leafed AshFraxinus angustifolia2 recordsJavier martin · Public domain
SkeletonweedChondrilla juncea3 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

32out of 100

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

  • 26%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 50%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 139Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,508 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan-2°-11°47 mm
  2. Feb0°-9°48 mm
  3. Mar6°-4°47 mm
  4. Apr11°0°45 mm
  5. May18°6°17 mm
  6. Jun24°11°12 mm
  7. Jul27°14°17 mm
  8. Aug26°13°20 mm
  9. Sep21°9°44 mm
  10. Oct14°4°77 mm
  11. Nov5°-4°80 mm
  12. Dec0°-8°54 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lavizan Forest Park.

Forest park in Tehran, Iran

Lavizan Forest Park is a forest in Iran, 1,508 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 26% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 50% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

139 species have been recorded around it: 10 plants, 0 fungi, 128 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Lucerne, Sun spurge and German-madwort.

The best time to walk is in May.

Tehran view from lavizan park
Milad Mosapoor · Attribution

Get there and walk

  • هنگامcampsite · 2.5 km · 12 within 10 km
  • متل شیانplace to stay · 1.3 km · 280 within 10 km
  • Vaḩīdīyehnearest town · 7.0 km in a straight line
  • Mehrabad International Airport (THR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 20 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.

Lavizan Forest Park 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

  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmبوستان نیما, بوستان دلنواز
  • 16shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmبام قائم, بام محک, بام سوهانک and 2 more
  • 45car parks within 3 km
  • 12campsites within 10 kmهنگام, مبل, خانه معلم and 9 more
  • 280places to stay within 10 kmمتل شیان, هتل رستوران مروارید, هتل رامتین and 277 more
  • 81restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Lavizan Forest Park.

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.

Peakyas154 mountains within 25 km
Kolakchal3,350 m · 11 kmTochal3,964 m · 15 kmChin Kalagh2,820 m · 16 kmTappeh Haji Hojjat16 kmShah Neshin3,875 m · 18 kmMount Safaiyeh19 kmMount Bibi Shahrbanu (Tehran Province)1,485 m · 19 kmKūh-e Astarchāl24 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.

2009 Park Jangali Lavizan Tehran 3470035847
ninara from Helsinki, Finland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Lavizan (41) دورنمای شمال شرقی تهران از زاویه دید پارک جنگلی لویزان
نادر مظلومی · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lavizan Forest Park 1
Kasir · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Lavizan Forest Park

Iran

  • 32Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • 139Species

Sisangan Forest Park

Iran · 93 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 61Species

See the guide

Chitgar Park

Iran · 28 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 216Species

See the guide

National Botanical Garden of Iran

Iran · 30 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 133Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5690263) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species16,107 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, Cascadyas

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

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