Israel notable tree
Oak of Mamre
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2% trees around it and 5 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km2%
- wild within 10 km69%
- species recorded5
- Altitude922 m
The forest around
2% 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 km1%
- 1–3 km2%
- 3–6 km4%
- 6–10 km3%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees2%
- Shrubland20%
- Grassland6%
- Bare ground2%
- Cropland4%
- Built-up66%
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
5 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 2 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).
- 2%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 69%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 5Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 922 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from February to March and in December.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan5°59 mm
- Feb6°42 mm
- Mar8°27 mm
- Apr10°15 mm
- May14°4 mm
- Jun17°0 mm
- Jul19°1 mm
- Aug20°0 mm
- Sep18°2 mm
- Oct16°12 mm
- Nov11°31 mm
- Dec7°48 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Oak of Mamre.
Venerated site in the West Bank
Oak of Mamre is a notable tree in Israel, 922 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 2% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 69% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
5 species have been recorded around it: 5 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Kermes Oak, Chick pea and Iphiona mucronata.
The best time to walk is from February to March and in December.
Get there and walk
- منزل الحاج محسن ارشيدcampsite · 0.6 km · 10 within 10 km
- Hebron Hotelplace to stay · 1.1 km · 70 within 10 km
- Hebronnearest town · 1.1 km in a straight line
- Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 56 km in a straight lineCar hire at TLV airport (Tel Aviv)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 1marked trails within 5 km
- 2named and notable trees within 6 kmעץ תות, بلوطة إبراهيم
- 2picnic sites within 4 kmTyba, גן שהם
- 5shelters and huts within 6 kmطلعة التكروري/ قب الجانب and 4 more
- 9viewpoints within 5 kmמצפה חברון, إبراهيم, موقع حرم الرامة الأثري and 6 more
- 3visitor centres within 6 kmInformation center, HRC, Gutnik Center
- 15car parks within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 kmمنزل الحاج محسن ارشيد, بيتي, الضاحيه and 7 more
- 70places to stay within 10 kmHebron Hotel, H2 Hostel Hebron, فندق ومطعم أبو مازن and 67 more
- 60restaurants 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 Oak of Mamre.
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.
Peakyas71 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonFigures 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.
Oak of Mamre
Israel
- 16Forestyas Score
- 2%Trees
- 69%Wild
- 5Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2473173) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 33 open records within 2 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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