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Passa Quatro National Forest

Juliana Aparecida Schionato · CC BY-SA 4.0

51% trees around it and 374 species recorded.

68Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km51%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded374
  • Altitude994 m

The forest around

51% 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 88%Grassland 12%Trees 46%Grassland 46%Cropland 1%Built-up 6%Trees 51%Grassland 46%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%Trees 61%Shrubland 0%Grassland 36%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%51%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km88%
  • 1–3 km46%
  • 3–6 km51%
  • 6–10 km61%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees46%
  • Grassland46%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up6%

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

374 species recorded.

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

Narrowleaf airplant
Narrowleaf airplantTillandsia tenuifolia9 recordsAlex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil · CC BY 2.0
Liparis nervosa
Liparis nervosaLiparis nervosa8 recordsMiss Drake del., J. Watts sc. · Public domain
Sacoila lanceolata
Sacoila lanceolataSacoila lanceolata6 recordsMalcolm Manners from Lakeland FL, USA · CC BY 2.0
Cyrtocymura scorpioides
Cyrtocymura scorpioidesCyrtocymura scorpioides6 recordsCarlos Alexandre Mattos Raposo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nectandra nitidula
Nectandra nitidulaNectandra nitidula6 recordsInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica - INMA · CC BY-SA 4.0
Candelabra TreeCR
Candelabra TreeAraucaria angustifolia5 recordsGermano Roberto Schüür · CC BY-SA 3.0
Miconia sublanataMiconia sublanata5 records
Miconia cinerascensMiconia cinerascens5 records
Tillandsia strictaTillandsia stricta5 records
Pleroma fissinerviumPleroma fissinervium5 records
Miconia sulfureaMiconia sulfurea4 records
Pleurostachys rabeniiPleurostachys rabenii4 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

68out of 100

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

  • 51%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 374Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 994 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan26°16°239 mm
  2. Feb27°16°182 mm
  3. Mar26°16°162 mm
  4. Apr24°14°78 mm
  5. May22°11°51 mm
  6. Jun21°10°31 mm
  7. Jul22°9°32 mm
  8. Aug24°9°32 mm
  9. Sep26°11°57 mm
  10. Oct27°14°113 mm
  11. Nov26°14°178 mm
  12. Dec27°16°215 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Passa Quatro National Forest.

National forest in Brazil

Passa Quatro National Forest is a forest in Brazil, 994 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 51% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

374 species have been recorded around it: 128 plants, 9 fungi, 228 birds and 9 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Narrowleaf airplant, Liparis nervosa and Sacoila lanceolata.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Floresta Nacional Passa Quatro Juliana A Schionato (02)
Juliana Aparecida Schionato · 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.

Passa Quatro National Forest 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

  • 13campsites within 10 kmCamping e Floricultura da Renata, Ivos Hostel & Camping, Capim Amarelo and 10 more
  • 9places to stay within 10 kmSão Raphael, Hostel Passa4, Recanto das Hortências and 6 more
  • 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 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
  • car parks 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 Passa Quatro National 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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Pedra da Mina2,798 m · 12 kmPico dos Três Estados2,665 m · 15 kmSerra da Virgínia19 kmPico dos Marins2,421 m · 22 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.

Floresta Nacional Passa Quatro Juliana A Schionato (01)
Juliana Aparecida Schionato · CC BY-SA 4.0
Floresta Municipal Passa Quatro 03
Jimfotografia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cachoeira do Andorinhão (Passa Quatro)
Gabrielrvallim · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Passa Quatro National Forest

Brazil

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 374Species

Tijuca Forest

Brazil · 186 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 1,485Species

See the guide

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx

Brazil · 160 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 60Species

See the guide

Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

Brazil · 188 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 852Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q10282880) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species10,756 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 atlasesPeakyas

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

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