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Olive tree of Vouves

Eric Nagle · CC BY-SA 4.0

93% trees around it and 18 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km93%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded18
  • Altitude220 m

The forest around

93% 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 97%Grassland 1%Built-up 2%Trees 92%Grassland 5%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 2%Trees 83%Shrubland 4%Grassland 9%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 3%Trees 55%Shrubland 8%Grassland 8%Water 26%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%93%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km97%
  • 1–3 km92%
  • 3–6 km83%
  • 6–10 km55%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees92%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland5%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up2%

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

18 species recorded.

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

Persian Walnut
Persian WalnutJuglans regia3 recordssurrealpenguin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Arabian pea
Arabian peaBituminaria bituminosa2 recordsnnogue · CC BY-SA 3.0
Prickly-ivy
Prickly-ivySmilax aspera2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fig
FigFicus carica2 recordsSilverije · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chicory
ChicoryCichorium intybus2 recordsOriginal book source: Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und d · Public domain
Olive tree
Olive treeOlea europaea2 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rhaphiolepis bibasRhaphiolepis bibas3 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 93%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 18Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 220 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan13°10°98 mm
  2. Feb13°10°90 mm
  3. Mar15°11°52 mm
  4. Apr18°13°27 mm
  5. May22°16°17 mm
  6. Jun26°20°4 mm
  7. Jul29°23°3 mm
  8. Aug29°23°5 mm
  9. Sep26°21°21 mm
  10. Oct22°18°57 mm
  11. Nov18°15°83 mm
  12. Dec15°12°103 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Olive tree of Vouves.

Exceptionally old olive tree in the Greek village of Ano Vouves

Olive tree of Vouves is a notable tree in Greece, 220 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 93% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

18 species have been recorded around it: 7 plants, 0 fungi, 11 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Persian Walnut, Arabian pea and Prickly-ivy.

The best time to walk is in April.

Olive tree of Vouves
Eric Nagle · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Camping Nopigiacampsite · 6.5 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Palazzo Loupassi Boutique Hotelplace to stay · 3.5 km · 113 within 10 km
  • Kolympárinearest town · 6.1 km in a straight line
  • Chania International Airport (CHQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 33 km in a straight lineCar hire at CHQ airport (Souda)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.

Olive tree of Vouves 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmNature in Contrast PLA 08, Nature and History PLA 09, The Coastal Trail PLA 14 and 2 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmΕλιά Βουβών
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3viewpoints within 5 kmH107
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Nopigia, Camping Mithimna
  • 113places to stay within 10 kmPalazzo Loupassi Boutique Hotel, Iliaktida-Apartments, Adelais and 110 more
  • 8restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Olive tree of Vouves.

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.

Peakyas120 mountains within 25 km
Bourbadokefala767 m · 15 kmManna389 m · 17 kmDembla542 m · 18 kmKoutroulis20 kmFteroseli622 m · 21 kmAchladedi355 m · 21 kmFoundana1,025 m · 21 kmAnginares1,239 m · 24 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Chersonisos Rodopou65 species · 13 kmAgia lake176 species · 13 kmNisida Agioi Theodoroi14 kmChersonisos Gramvoussas Kai Nisides Imeri Kai Agria Gramvoussa, Pontikonisi100 species · 19 kmMeterizia Agios Dikaios - Tsounara - Vitsilia Lefkon Oreon24 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.

Ancient olive tree of Vouves closeup
Avsa · CC BY 4.0
Olive tree of Vouves 2021-10-16
Alexey Komarov · CC BY-SA 4.0
Olive tree old 3
Davric · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Olive tree of Vouves

Greece

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 18Species

Tree of Hippocrates

Greece · 351 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 110Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7087240) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species71 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, Islandyas, Darkskyas, Birdyas, Canyonyas

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

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