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Oak of Stephen the Great in Cobîlea

Alex Prodan md · CC BY-SA 4.0

43% trees around it and 5 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km43%
  • wild within 10 km48%
  • species recorded5
  • Altitude225 m

The forest around

43% 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 71%Grassland 9%Cropland 15%Built-up 5%Trees 40%Grassland 15%Cropland 44%Built-up 1%Trees 30%Grassland 13%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 54%Built-up 2%Trees 34%Grassland 13%Water 0%Cropland 51%Built-up 1%43%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km71%
  • 1–3 km40%
  • 3–6 km30%
  • 6–10 km34%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees40%
  • Grassland15%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland44%
  • Built-up1%

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.

White Stork
White StorkCiconia ciconia2 recordsKrzysztof Kin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blackbird
BlackbirdTurdus merula2 recordsKahvilokki · CC BY-SA 4.0
Song Thrush
Song ThrushTurdus philomelos2 recordsCharles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0
White Wagtail
White WagtailMotacilla alba2 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Western Yellow Wagtail
Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava2 recordsKathy2408 · 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.

28out of 100

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

  • 43%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 48%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 5Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 225 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-2°-8°39 mm
  2. Feb1°-7°34 mm
  3. Mar8°-2°38 mm
  4. Apr16°4°43 mm
  5. May22°10°55 mm
  6. Jun26°14°71 mm
  7. Jul29°16°63 mm
  8. Aug29°16°38 mm
  9. Sep23°10°45 mm
  10. Oct14°4°44 mm
  11. Nov7°-1°40 mm
  12. Dec0°-6°38 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 Stephen the Great in Cobîlea.

Secular tree and historical monument of national importance in Moldova

Oak of Stephen the Great in Cobîlea is a notable tree in Moldova, 225 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 43% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 48% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

5 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 5 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from April to May and in September.

Stejar Stefan cel Mare Cobilea Soldanesti (6)
Alex Prodan md · 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.

Oak of Stephen the Great in Cobîlea 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmStejarul lui Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt (vârsta 700 ani)
  • 2campsites within 10 kmBază de odihnă
  • marked trails within 5 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 Oak of Stephen the Great in Cobîlea.

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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Dniester Hills12 kmGora Pogorna16 kmGora Kashunka23 kmGora Kashi24 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.

Other forests nearby.

Oak of Stephen the Great in Cobîlea

Moldova

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 43%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 5Species

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Moldova · 123 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 45%Wild
  • 137Species

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Chișinău Botanical Garden

Moldova · 101 km

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 108Species

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Sofiyivsky Park

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  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 37%Wild
  • 232Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q12102590) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species27 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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