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National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens

ခင်မောင်မောင်လွင် · CC BY-SA 4.0

60% trees around it and 128 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km60%
  • wild within 10 km76%
  • species recorded128
  • Altitude1,118 m

The forest around

60% 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 76%Grassland 12%Water 6%Bare ground 1%Cropland 3%Built-up 2%Trees 58%Grassland 22%Water 0%Cropland 12%Built-up 8%Trees 35%Grassland 30%Bare ground 0%Cropland 20%Built-up 13%Trees 42%Grassland 37%Water 0%Cropland 18%Built-up 2%60%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km76%
  • 1–3 km58%
  • 3–6 km35%
  • 6–10 km42%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees58%
  • Grassland22%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland12%
  • Built-up8%

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

128 species recorded.

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

Impatiens chinensis
Impatiens chinensisImpatiens chinensis3 recordsYercaud-elango · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

62out of 100

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

  • 60%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 76%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 128Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,118 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

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

  1. Jan29°14°10 mm
  2. Feb32°16°2 mm
  3. Mar35°20°7 mm
  4. Apr38°24°15 mm
  5. May37°26°32 mm
  6. Jun35°25°44 mm
  7. Jul35°25°33 mm
  8. Aug35°25°38 mm
  9. Sep35°25°30 mm
  10. Oct34°24°33 mm
  11. Nov33°20°9 mm
  12. Dec30°16°7 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens.

Botanical garden in Burma

National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens is an arboretum in Myanmar, 1,118 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 60% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 76% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

128 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 0 fungi, 119 birds and 8 mammals.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

A place of Pyin Oo Lwin Park
ခင်မောင်မောင်လွင် · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • ေလ့က်င့္ေရး၂campsite · 6.1 km · 4 within 10 km
  • MayOoLwinplace to stay · 1.9 km · 166 within 10 km
  • Pyin Oo Lwinnearest town · 4.5 km in a straight line
  • Mandalay International Airport (MDL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 60 km in a straight line

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 Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens 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

  • 4shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmNan myint tower, ဖလံ​ေတာင္​
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmေလ့က်င့္ေရး၂ and 3 more
  • 166places to stay within 10 kmMayOoLwin, royal land motel, ဂႏမာျမိဳင္ ဟိုတယ္ and 163 more
  • 46restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens.

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.

Peakyas26 mountains within 25 km
Tabwe Taung1,084 m · 9.0 kmSauknan Taung1,161 m · 9.7 kmTaungbyo1,276 m · 11 kmOkhpo Taung1,223 m · 11 kmSintheka Taung1,092 m · 13 kmNattaga Taung1,058 m · 13 kmWadawgyi Taung1,032 m · 19 kmMigyo Taung1,032 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.

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2747212) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,043 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, 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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