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Pi de les Tres Branques

Flickr user " albert " · CC BY 2.0

88% trees around it and 61 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km88%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded61
  • Altitude1,296 m

The forest around

88% 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 85%Shrubland 5%Grassland 9%Cropland 1%Trees 88%Shrubland 2%Grassland 8%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 77%Shrubland 4%Grassland 10%Cropland 6%Built-up 3%Trees 73%Shrubland 4%Grassland 10%Water 2%Cropland 11%Built-up 1%88%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km85%
  • 1–3 km88%
  • 3–6 km77%
  • 6–10 km73%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees88%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up0%

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

61 species recorded.

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

Dwarf honeysuckle
Dwarf honeysuckleLonicera xylosteum4 recordsDaniel Fuchs · CC BY-SA 2.5
Fly orchid
Fly orchidOphrys insectifera3 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica3 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Linum viscosum
Linum viscosumLinum viscosum3 recordsAlbert H. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fragrant orchid
Fragrant orchidGymnadenia conopsea3 recordsThe original uploader was (Automated conversion) at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodcock bee-orchid
Woodcock bee-orchidOphrys scolopax2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Early spider-orchid
Early spider-orchidOphrys sphegodes2 recordsVelela · CC BY 2.5
Greater butterfly-orchid
Greater butterfly-orchidPlatanthera chlorantha2 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Military orchid
Military orchidOrchis militaris2 recordsKristian Pikner · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hoary plantain
Hoary plantainPlantago media2 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Marsh helleborine
Marsh helleborineEpipactis palustris2 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Dungwort
DungwortHelleborus foetidus2 recordsWildfeuer · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

74out of 100

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

  • 88%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 61Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,296 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

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

  1. Jan9°-1°40 mm
  2. Feb10°-1°35 mm
  3. Mar14°2°47 mm
  4. Apr17°5°56 mm
  5. May22°9°56 mm
  6. Jun27°14°35 mm
  7. Jul29°16°35 mm
  8. Aug29°16°42 mm
  9. Sep24°12°51 mm
  10. Oct19°8°67 mm
  11. Nov13°3°56 mm
  12. Dec9°0°34 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Pi de les Tres Branques.

Dead pine tree in the countryside in Catalonia

Pi de les Tres Branques is a notable tree in Spain, 1,296 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 88% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

61 species have been recorded around it: 18 plants, 0 fungi, 41 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Dwarf honeysuckle, Fly orchid and European Beech.

The best time to walk is in October.

Pont Pi de les 3 Branques
Flickr user " albert " · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Càmping Font Fredacampsite · 1.4 km · 10 within 10 km
  • La Torre d'Espinalbetplace to stay · 1.3 km · 20 within 10 km
  • Castellar del Riunearest town · 1.5 km in a straight line
  • Pirineus - la Seu d'Urgel Airport (LEU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 40 km in a straight lineCar hire at GRO airport (Girona)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.

Pi de les Tres Branques 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

  • 7marked trails within 5 kmSender de Sant Corneli, Sender dels Maquis, Sender Històric: Catalunya and 4 more
  • 4named and notable trees within 6 kmPi de les Tres Branques, Pi Jove de les Tres Branques and 2 more
  • 10picnic sites within 4 km
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 kmXalet Refugi Rasos de Peguera
  • 18viewpoints within 5 kmMirador de la Figuerassa, Mirador de Garreta, Morrall de les Estelles and 15 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmoficina de turisme
  • 7car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmCàmping Font Freda, Àrea d'autocaravanes Avià, Terreny d'acampada Llinars d'Aigua d'Ora and 7 more
  • 20places to stay within 10 kmLa Torre d'Espinalbet, Els Noguers, Insomnia Hotel & Restaurant and 17 more
  • 1restaurants 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 Pi de les Tres Branques.

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.

Peakyas329 mountains within 25 km
El Calderer2,497 m · 16 kmPedraforca massif2,506 m · 16 kmComabona2,548 m · 20 kmPic de Costa Cabirolera2,604 m · 21 kmEl Salt del Sastre2,592 m · 22 kmPuig de la Canal del Cristall2,583 m · 22 kmVulturó2,649 m · 23 kmPuigllançada massif2,409 m · 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Pantà de la Baells2.3 km² · 7.9 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Santa Cova (la Nou de Berguedà)10 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
el Salt de la Talaia8.4 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.

Pi de les Tres Branques I (Castellar del Riu) - 1
Angela Llop · CC BY-SA 2.0
Carretera Pi de les Tres Branques, juny 2015
Rwxrwxrwx · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fons del Pi de les Tres Branques, juny 2015 (1)
Rwxrwxrwx · CC BY-SA 4.0

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  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 88%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 61Species

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  • 87%Wild
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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4892849) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species294 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, Lakeyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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

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