Rwanda forest
Nyungwe Forest
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96% trees around it and 185 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km96%
- wild within 10 km100%
- species recorded185
- Altitude2,442 m
The forest around
96% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km99%
- 1–3 km96%
- 3–6 km96%
- 6–10 km93%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees96%
- Shrubland4%
- Grassland0%
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
185 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
VUOpen records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 185Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 2,442 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from May to July.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan15°137 mm
- Feb15°125 mm
- Mar15°178 mm
- Apr15°176 mm
- May14°108 mm
- Jun13°50 mm
- Jul12°28 mm
- Aug13°65 mm
- Sep15°106 mm
- Oct15°157 mm
- Nov15°224 mm
- Dec15°152 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Nyungwe Forest.
National park located in southwest part of Rwanda
Nyungwe Forest is a forest in Rwanda, 2,442 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
185 species have been recorded around it: 101 plants, 9 fungi, 69 birds and 6 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Carapa procera, Wild loquat and Black wattle.
The best time to walk is from May to July.
Get there and walk
- Uwinka Campsitecampsite · 10 km · 3 within 10 km
- Cyatonearest town · 18 km in a straight line
- Kamembe Airport (KME)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 42 km in a straight lineCar hire in KigaliDiscover 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 1marked trails within 5 kmNyungwe Traverse
- 3campsites within 10 kmUwinka Campsite, Unwinka Visitor's Centre, Banda Community Campsite
- named and notable trees within 6 km
- picnic sites within 4 km
- shelters and huts within 6 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- car parks within 3 km
- places to stay within 10 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 Nyungwe Forest.
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.
Peakyas62 mountains within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Nyungwe Forest
Rwanda
- 87Forestyas Score
- 96%Trees
- 100%Wild
- 185Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1356828) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 1,078 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Birdyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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