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Namibia Namibia arboretum

National Botanic Garden of Namibia

WIPO | OMPI · CC BY 2.0

7% trees around it and 153 species recorded.

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ArboretumMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km7%
  • wild within 10 km80%
  • species recorded153
  • Altitude1,708 m

The forest around

7% 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 13%Shrubland 22%Grassland 1%Bare ground 1%Built-up 62%Trees 7%Shrubland 36%Grassland 1%Bare ground 1%Built-up 56%Trees 4%Shrubland 58%Grassland 6%Water 0%Bare ground 2%Built-up 30%Trees 1%Shrubland 79%Grassland 7%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Built-up 11%7%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km13%
  • 1–3 km7%
  • 3–6 km4%
  • 6–10 km1%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees7%
  • Shrubland36%
  • Grassland1%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Built-up56%

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

153 species recorded.

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

Bitter apple
Bitter appleSolanum lichtensteinii4 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Black pouiVU
Black pouiJacaranda mimosifolia3 recordsKahuroa · Public domain
Norfolk Island AraucariaVU
Norfolk Island AraucariaAraucaria heterophylla2 recordsbertknot from scarborough, australia · CC BY-SA 2.0
White leadtree
White leadtreeLeucaena leucocephala2 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Crown of thorns
Crown of thornsEuphorbia avasmontana2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Esculapio assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Sausage tree
Sausage treeKigelia africana2 recordsBjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Acanthosicyos horridus
Acanthosicyos horridusAcanthosicyos horridus2 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Date palm
Date palmPhoenix dactylifera2 recordsEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0
Senecio windhoekensisSenecio windhoekensis3 records
Senecio eeniiSenecio eenii2 records
Erythrina decoraErythrina decora2 records
Senecio consanguineusSenecio consanguineus2 records

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).

  • 7%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 80%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 153Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,708 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan32°17°90 mm
  2. Feb30°16°91 mm
  3. Mar28°15°84 mm
  4. Apr26°12°57 mm
  5. May23°8°6 mm
  6. Jun21°4°2 mm
  7. Jul21°4°1 mm
  8. Aug24°6°1 mm
  9. Sep29°10°4 mm
  10. Oct31°14°20 mm
  11. Nov32°15°34 mm
  12. Dec32°16°53 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Botanic Garden of Namibia.

National Botanic Garden of Namibia is an arboretum in Namibia, 1,708 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 7% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 80% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

153 species have been recorded around it: 13 plants, 0 fungi, 137 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bitter apple, Black poui and Norfolk Island Araucaria.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

WIPO Director General Meets Namibia's Prime Minister
WIPO | OMPI · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Chameleon Backpackers & Guesthousecampsite · 1.4 km · 5 within 10 km
  • Hotel Heinitzburgplace to stay · 0.4 km · 120 within 10 km
  • Windhoeknearest town · 1.8 km in a straight line
  • Eros Airport (ERS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 4 km in a straight lineCar hire at ERS airport (Windhoek)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.

National Botanic Garden of Namibia 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmPark Run Windhoek Trail
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 13viewpoints within 5 kmNational Botanical Garden, Garden Terrace Heinitzburg, Lovers' Hill and 10 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmWindhoek Tourism Visitor Information Office
  • 296car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmChameleon Backpackers & Guesthouse, Urban Camp, Revamp and 2 more
  • 120places to stay within 10 kmHotel Heinitzburg, Haus Bodensee, Klein Windhoek Guesthouse and 117 more
  • 114restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees 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 National Botanic Garden of Namibia.

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.

Peakyas47 mountains within 25 km
Kamelberg2,194 m · 10 kmWachter2,120 m · 11 kmKempinskiberg2,187 m · 12 kmMoltkeblick2,479 m · 12 kmOorlogstein2,392 m · 17 kmRegenstein (Namibia)2,302 m · 19 kmLudwigkop2,133 m · 19 kmAuasende2,344 m · 20 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.

Südwester Reiter
Hans Stieglitz · CC BY-SA 3.0
10 Mann Haus Windhoek Namibia 3
Pemba.mpimaji · CC BY-SA 4.0
10 Mann Haus Windhoek Namibia 2
Pemba.mpimaji · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q998418) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species15,764 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 atlasesPeakyas

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

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