Spain forest
Macizo de Anaga Biosphere Reserve
Holger Uwe Schmitt · CC BY-SA 4.0
70% trees around it and 748 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km70%
- wild within 10 km90%
- species recorded748
- Altitude1,020 m
The forest around
70% 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 km97%
- 1–3 km67%
- 3–6 km28%
- 6–10 km11%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees67%
- Shrubland20%
- Grassland13%
- Water0%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up0%
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
748 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 5 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).
- 70%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 748Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 1,020 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from March to May.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan16°25 mm
- Feb16°32 mm
- Mar16°22 mm
- Apr17°15 mm
- May18°7 mm
- Jun19°3 mm
- Jul20°2 mm
- Aug21°5 mm
- Sep21°10 mm
- Oct21°25 mm
- Nov19°35 mm
- Dec18°39 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Macizo de Anaga Biosphere Reserve.
Mountain range in the northeastern part of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands
Macizo de Anaga Biosphere Reserve is a forest in Spain, 1,020 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 70% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
748 species have been recorded around it: 391 plants, 276 fungi, 80 birds and 1 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Canarina canariensis, Bermuda buttercup and Azores buttercup.
The best time to walk is from March to May.
Get there and walk
- Camping Punta del Hidalgocampsite · 7.2 km · 4 within 10 km
- Finca Los Geraniosplace to stay · 4.6 km · 69 within 10 km
- Teguestenearest town · 7.2 km in a straight line
- Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (TFN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 9 km in a straight lineCar hire at TFN airport (Tenerife)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
- 19marked trails within 5 kmTaborno-Pico del Inglés-Valleseco, Cruz del Carmen - Punta del Hidalgo, Las Escaleras - Las Carboneras - Chinamada and 16 more
- 8named and notable trees within 6 kmLaurel Centenario, Sanguino, Laurel and 5 more
- 5picnic sites within 4 kmLa Quebrada, Zona Recreativa Llano de los Viejos and 3 more
- 14shelters and huts within 6 kmRuins of a cave house, Cabeza Toros and 12 more
- 47viewpoints within 5 kmMirador de Aguaide, Mirador del Escobón, Mirador Roque de Taborno and 44 more
- 3visitor centres within 6 kmCentro de Visitantes de la Cruz del Carmen, turismo LA LAGUNA, Oficina de Turismo
- 29car parks within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmCamping Punta del Hidalgo, Parkplatz am Playa las Teressitas and 2 more
- 69places to stay within 10 kmFinca Los Geranios, Patio Hostel, Hotel Náutico and 66 more
- 15restaurants 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 Macizo de Anaga Biosphere Reserve.
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.
Peakyas72 mountains within 25 km
Coastya18 beaches within 10 km
Viewyas5 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonFigures 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.
Macizo de Anaga Biosphere Reserve
Spain
- 77Forestyas Score
- 70%Trees
- 90%Wild
- 748Species
Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo
Spain · 95 km
- 55Forestyas Score
- 36%Trees
- 83%Wild
- 167Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q483905) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 25,635 open records within 5 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Viewyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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