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Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve

Denis Barthel · CC BY-SA 4.0

55% trees around it and 473 species recorded.

71Forestyas Score

ForestWildBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km55%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded473
  • Altitude494 m

The forest around

55% 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 71%Grassland 29%Trees 53%Grassland 47%Trees 33%Grassland 67%Trees 50%Grassland 50%55%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km71%
  • 1–3 km53%
  • 3–6 km33%
  • 6–10 km50%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees53%
  • Grassland47%

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

473 species recorded.

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

Granadillo bobo
Granadillo boboMiconia prasina16 recordsXemenendura · CC BY-SA 3.0
Miconia ibaguensis
Miconia ibaguensisMiconia ibaguensis12 recordsfmunoz · CC BY 4.0
Miconia albicans
Miconia albicansMiconia albicans11 recordsJoão Medeiros · CC BY 2.0
Rhynchospora exaltata
Rhynchospora exaltataRhynchospora exaltata8 recordsJoão Medeiros · CC BY 2.0
Maricao cimun
Maricao cimunByrsonima crassifolia8 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Clusia massonianaClusia massoniana11 records
Psychotria fruticetorumPsychotria fruticetorum10 records
Hypericum styphelioidesHypericum styphelioides10 records
Miconia subhirsutaMiconia subhirsuta9 records
Digitaria multifloraDigitaria multiflora8 records
Miconia sericeaMiconia sericea7 records
Dalechampia schippiiDalechampia schippii7 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

71out of 100

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

  • 55%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 473Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 494 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February.

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

  1. Jan25°17°110 mm
  2. Feb26°18°66 mm
  3. Mar29°19°58 mm
  4. Apr31°20°40 mm
  5. May31°22°126 mm
  6. Jun28°22°240 mm
  7. Jul27°22°174 mm
  8. Aug28°22°197 mm
  9. Sep28°22°225 mm
  10. Oct27°21°251 mm
  11. Nov25°19°200 mm
  12. Dec25°18°137 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve.

Nature reserve in Belize

Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve is a forest in Belize, 494 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 55% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

473 species have been recorded around it: 194 plants, 12 fungi, 249 birds and 18 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Granadillo bobo, Miconia ibaguensis and Miconia albicans.

The best time to walk is from January to February.

SchmettiMtPine
Denis Barthel · 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.

Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 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

  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmReimer Cabins, San Miguel Campgrounds and 2 more
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmPine Ridge Lodge, Gaia Riverlodge, Kane Villas and 1 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • restaurants 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 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest 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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Baldy Beacon1,020 m · 16 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 km
Che Chem Ha Cave15 kmBarton Creek Cave16 kmActun Tunichil Muknal18 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Big Rock Falls9.1 kmThousand Foot Falls14 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.

Schmetti 2MtPine
Denis Barthel · CC BY-SA 4.0
Peaceful Water Pool - panoramio
stbraun · CC BY-SA 3.0
Belize - panoramio (2)
Андрей Бобровский · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve

Belize

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 55%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 473Species

Belize Botanic Gardens

Belize · 19 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 397Species

See the guide

Lancetilla Botanical Garden

Honduras · 210 km

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 602Species

See the guide

Lacandon Jungle

Mexico · 243 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6925163) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species11,857 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, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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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