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Botswana Botswana arboretum

National Botanical Garden

S Molteno · CC BY-SA 4.0

28% trees around it and 134 species recorded.

44Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km28%
  • wild within 10 km69%
  • species recorded134
  • Altitude980 m

The forest around

28% 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 40%Shrubland 9%Grassland 2%Cropland 4%Built-up 45%Trees 26%Shrubland 14%Grassland 5%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 52%Trees 19%Shrubland 26%Grassland 5%Water 5%Bare ground 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 38%Trees 25%Shrubland 44%Grassland 5%Water 4%Bare ground 1%Cropland 4%Built-up 18%28%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km40%
  • 1–3 km26%
  • 3–6 km19%
  • 6–10 km25%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees26%
  • Shrubland14%
  • Grassland5%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up52%

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

134 species recorded.

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

Blackeyed pea
Blackeyed peaVigna unguiculata2 recordsUnknown author · 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.

44out of 100

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

  • 28%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 69%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 134Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 980 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. Jan34°20°90 mm
  2. Feb33°20°77 mm
  3. Mar32°18°69 mm
  4. Apr29°14°40 mm
  5. May26°10°8 mm
  6. Jun23°6°7 mm
  7. Jul23°5°1 mm
  8. Aug27°8°1 mm
  9. Sep31°12°11 mm
  10. Oct34°16°34 mm
  11. Nov34°18°68 mm
  12. Dec34°20°96 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Botanical Garden.

Botswana's National Botanical Garden

National Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Botswana, 980 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 28% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 69% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

134 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 0 fungi, 133 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

1 National Botanical Gardens Botswana
S Molteno · 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.

National 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
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 151car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmBDF Garrison Village
  • 86places to stay within 10 kmhome, Masters Dormitory, 403 and 83 more
  • 12restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 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.

Peakyas24 mountains within 25 km
Kgale Hill1,287 m · 8.4 kmGabane Hills1,190 m · 18 kmRanku Hill1,181 m · 18 kmRasemong Hills1,272 m · 20 kmSenamakula Hill1,161 m · 20 kmTlhwane Hills1,165 m · 22 kmPhiriyabokwete Hill1,249 m · 23 kmMmabotswaborwa Hills1,183 m · 23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Skuinsdam18 km² · 7.4 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Notwane RiverMetsimotlhabe River

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

3 Botswana Botanical Gardens Gaborone
S Molteno · CC BY-SA 4.0
Botswana National Botanical Garden 1
CNJerem · CC BY 4.0
Botswana National Botanical Garden 2
CNJerem · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

National Botanical Garden

Botswana

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 28%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 134Species

Pretoria National Botanical Garden

South Africa · 263 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 620Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6971105) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,299 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, Lakeyas, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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