Peru arboretum
Lima Botanical Garden
Herwarth Morales · CC BY-SA 4.0
1% trees around it and 61 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km1%
- wild within 10 km25%
- species recorded61
- Altitude167 m
The forest around
1% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km0%
- 1–3 km2%
- 3–6 km2%
- 6–10 km2%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees2%
- Shrubland0%
- Grassland0%
- Water0%
- Bare ground5%
- Built-up93%
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
61 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 1%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 25%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 61Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 167 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from May to September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan16°3 mm
- Feb17°5 mm
- Mar17°4 mm
- Apr16°1 mm
- May14°1 mm
- Jun13°1 mm
- Jul12°1 mm
- Aug13°1 mm
- Sep13°1 mm
- Oct14°1 mm
- Nov14°2 mm
- Dec15°3 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Lima Botanical Garden.
Botanical garden in Lima Peru
Lima Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Peru.
Seen from space, 1% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 25% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
61 species have been recorded around it: 8 plants, 1 fungi, 52 birds and 0 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Peanut, Sieva bean and Maca.
The best time to walk is from May to September.
Get there and walk
- Camping Overlander and Airbnb El Tip Viajerocampsite · 7.4 km · 2 within 10 km
- Hostal Romaplace to stay · 1.7 km · 1,091 within 10 km
- Limanearest town · 1.5 km in a straight line
- Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at LIM airport (Lima)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 1marked trails within 5 kmAlameda 28 de Julio
- 44named and notable trees within 6 kmTupac and 43 more
- 3picnic sites within 4 km
- 17shelters and huts within 6 km
- 7viewpoints within 5 kmCrossroads calles peatonales, Convento de la Santisima Trinidad and 5 more
- 2visitor centres within 6 kmOf. Información Turística, Atención al cliente de Jockey Plaza
- 434car parks within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Overlander and Airbnb El Tip Viajero
- 1,091places to stay within 10 kmHostal Roma, Thunderbird carrera, Casa Yolanda and 1,088 more
- 607restaurants 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 Lima 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.
Peakyas108 mountains within 25 km
Coastya9 beaches within 10 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Lima Botanical Garden
Peru
- 21Forestyas Score
- 1%Trees
- 25%Wild
- 61Species
Jardín botánico de Plantas Medicinales de Lima
Peru · 3 km
- 22Forestyas Score
- 2%Trees
- 31%Wild
- 70Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5926844) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 3,546 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Coastya, Darkskyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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