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Osun-Osogbo Grove

Oloyedejuwonlo · CC BY-SA 4.0

18% trees around it and 164 species recorded.

43Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km18%
  • wild within 10 km68%
  • species recorded164
  • Altitude326 m

The forest around

18% 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 52%Grassland 18%Cropland 2%Built-up 28%Trees 14%Shrubland 0%Grassland 21%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 61%Trees 25%Shrubland 0%Grassland 26%Cropland 6%Built-up 43%Trees 49%Shrubland 1%Grassland 29%Cropland 3%Built-up 18%18%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km52%
  • 1–3 km14%
  • 3–6 km25%
  • 6–10 km49%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees14%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland21%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up61%

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

164 species recorded.

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

Ear-leaf Acacia
Ear-leaf AcaciaAcacia auriculiformis15 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Blackeyed pea
Blackeyed peaVigna unguiculata14 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Oriental trema
Oriental tremaTrema orientale4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Sesamum indicum
Sesamum indicumSesamum indicum4 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cayenne porterweed
Cayenne porterweedStachytarpheta cayennensis2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Bitter Cassava
Bitter CassavaManihot esculenta2 recordsVpuipV · CC BY-SA 4.0
Little ironweed
Little ironweedCyanthillium cinereum2 recordsJeevan Jose, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0
Plukenetia conophoraPlukenetia conophora2 records
Ficus exasperataFicus exasperata2 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

43out of 100

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

  • 18%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 68%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 164Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 326 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from November to February.

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

  1. Jan31°18°15 mm
  2. Feb32°20°20 mm
  3. Mar31°22°56 mm
  4. Apr30°22°112 mm
  5. May29°22°161 mm
  6. Jun28°22°214 mm
  7. Jul27°21°206 mm
  8. Aug27°20°190 mm
  9. Sep28°21°288 mm
  10. Oct28°21°190 mm
  11. Nov30°21°33 mm
  12. Dec30°18°13 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Osun-Osogbo Grove.

Sacred forest along the bank of Osun river in Osogbo

Osun-Osogbo Grove is a forest in Nigeria, 326 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 18% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 68% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

164 species have been recorded around it: 9 plants, 0 fungi, 150 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ear-leaf Acacia, Blackeyed pea and Oriental trema.

The best time to walk is from November to February.

Osun Osogbo forest, river and sacred groove 08
Oloyedejuwonlo · 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.

Osun-Osogbo Grove 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

  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 7places to stay within 10 kmWhite Plain Hotel, Zarah Guest House, Flora Suites and 4 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • 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
  • campsites 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 Osun-Osogbo Grove.

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.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Ede-Erinle Reservoir0.4 km² · 10 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Osun River267 kmOba RiverErinle River

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Arugba Osun-Osogbo worshipper 11
SteadyWins · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cambridge osun
Dharmie larry · CC BY-SA 4.0
Osun Cambridge
Dharmie larry · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Osun-Osogbo Grove

Nigeria

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 18%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 164Species

Papatia Botanical Garden

Benin · 300 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 61Species

See the guide

Musée en Plein Air de Parakou

Benin · 275 km

  • 25Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 47%Wild
  • 51Species

See the guide

Upper Orashi Forest Reserve

Nigeria · 385 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q621498) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,005 open records within 5 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 atlasesLakeyas, Riveryas

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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