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Mangyshlak experimental Botanical Garden

Adam Shapovalov · CC BY-SA 4.0

0% trees around it and 231 species recorded.

39Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km82%
  • species recorded231

The forest around

0% 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 0%Shrubland 3%Grassland 0%Bare ground 4%Built-up 92%Grassland 1%Water 30%Bare ground 7%Built-up 62%Trees 0%Grassland 9%Water 51%Bare ground 14%Built-up 26%Grassland 14%Wetland 2%Water 52%Bare ground 25%Built-up 8%0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km0%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees0%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland1%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water30%
  • Bare ground7%
  • Built-up62%

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

231 species recorded.

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

Rosa pulverulenta
Rosa pulverulentaRosa pulverulenta6 recordsGidip · CC BY 3.0
Peking cotoneaster
Peking cotoneasterCotoneaster acutifolius6 recordsA. Barra · CC BY 3.0
Germander meadowsweet
Germander meadowsweetSpiraea chamaedryfolia6 recordsHectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Russian silverberry
Russian silverberryElaeagnus angustifolia6 recordsGeorg Slickers · CC BY-SA 3.0
Squawbush
SquawbushRhus trilobata6 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cockspur Hawthorn
Cockspur HawthornCrataegus crus-galli5 recordsNadiatalent · Public domain
Flowering plum
Flowering plumPrunus triloba5 recordsDalgial · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cotoneaster
CotoneasterCotoneaster integerrimus5 recordsIsidre blanc · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cotoneaster tauricus
Cotoneaster tauricusCotoneaster tauricus5 recordsМихаил Орлов · CC BY 4.0
Japanese flowering-quince
Japanese flowering-quinceChaenomeles japonica4 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dog-rose
Dog-roseRosa canina4 recordsNick Dvalishvili · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rosa glauca
Rosa glaucaRosa glauca4 recordsWouter Hagens · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

39out of 100

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

  • 0%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 82%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 231Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in October.

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

  1. Jan4°0°12 mm
  2. Feb5°-1°8 mm
  3. Mar9°3°15 mm
  4. Apr14°8°18 mm
  5. May22°15°10 mm
  6. Jun28°20°7 mm
  7. Jul31°24°7 mm
  8. Aug30°23°6 mm
  9. Sep25°18°8 mm
  10. Oct17°11°11 mm
  11. Nov10°5°17 mm
  12. Dec5°1°12 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Mangyshlak experimental Botanical Garden.

Mangyshlak experimental Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Kazakhstan.

Seen from space, 0% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 82% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

231 species have been recorded around it: 93 plants, 0 fungi, 138 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rosa pulverulenta, Peking cotoneaster and Germander meadowsweet.

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

Aktau
Adam Shapovalov · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Mangyshlak experimental 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 7shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 141car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmЮран
  • 44places to stay within 10 kmHotel Kaspiysky Bereg, Элем-т, Мандарин and 41 more
  • 131restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Mangyshlak experimental 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.

Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Oymasha Lake0.8 km² · 3.2 kmKoshkar-Ata54 km² · 14 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.

Актауская сирень
МирославАлексеевна · CC BY-SA 4.0
Барбарис в цвету
МирославАлексеевна · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Mangyshlak experimental Botanical Garden

Kazakhstan

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 0%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 231Species

Samursky Nature Park

Azerbaijan · 293 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 249Species

See the guide

Mardakan Arboretum

Azerbaijan · 361 km

  • 21Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 8Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q97168259) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,377 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 atlasesLakeyas

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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