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Plane tree from Rossio

João Martins · CC BY-SA 4.0

51% trees around it and 159 species recorded.

63Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km51%
  • wild within 10 km95%
  • species recorded159
  • Altitude447 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 45%Grassland 13%Built-up 42%Trees 51%Shrubland 2%Grassland 40%Cropland 0%Built-up 6%Trees 40%Shrubland 3%Grassland 52%Cropland 3%Built-up 2%Trees 38%Shrubland 3%Grassland 54%Water 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 1%51%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km45%
  • 1–3 km51%
  • 3–6 km40%
  • 6–10 km38%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees51%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland40%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • 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

159 species recorded.

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

Olive tree
Olive treeOlea europaea101 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Maritime Pine
Maritime PinePinus pinaster32 recordsLivioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Narrowleaf lupine
Narrowleaf lupineLupinus angustifolius14 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Yellow lupin
Yellow lupinLupinus luteus10 recordsPatrice78500 · Public domain
Cork Oak
Cork OakQuercus suber9 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0
Oat
OatAvena sativa6 recordsSendelbach ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Silver Wattle
Silver WattleAcacia dealbata3 recordsDonald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY 2.0
Lathyrus oleraceus
Lathyrus oleraceusLathyrus oleraceus3 recordsLudwik Polak · CC BY-SA 4.0
Big quakinggrass
Big quakinggrassBriza maxima2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata2 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Secale cereale
Secale cerealeSecale cereale2 recordsLSDSL · CC BY-SA 3.0
Persicaria capitata
Persicaria capitataPersicaria capitata2 recordsJJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · 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.

63out 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
  • 95%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 159Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 447 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. Jan12°2°82 mm
  2. Feb13°3°69 mm
  3. Mar16°5°84 mm
  4. Apr19°8°71 mm
  5. May24°11°47 mm
  6. Jun30°14°19 mm
  7. Jul35°17°7 mm
  8. Aug35°18°8 mm
  9. Sep30°15°37 mm
  10. Oct23°11°111 mm
  11. Nov16°6°103 mm
  12. Dec12°3°81 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Plane tree from Rossio.

Plane tree (Platanus x hispanica Mill. ex Münchh.) from Rossio in Portalegre, Portugal

Plane tree from Rossio is a notable tree in Portugal, 447 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 51% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 95% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

159 species have been recorded around it: 23 plants, 33 fungi, 103 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Olive tree, Maritime Pine and Narrowleaf lupine.

The best time to walk is in April.

2021 Plane tree of Rossio PT
João Martins · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • CP Portalegrecampsite · 0.3 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Rossio Hotelplace to stay · 0.1 km · 15 within 10 km
  • Portalegrenearest town · 0.3 km in a straight line
  • Badajoz Airport (BJZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 69 km in a straight lineCar hire in EvoraDiscover 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.

Plane tree from Rossio 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmPercurso do Salão Frio
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmPlátano do Rossio, Oliveira da Paz
  • 7viewpoints within 5 kmCruz da Penha, Miradouro da Serra, Miradouro and 4 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Info
  • 41car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmCP Portalegre and 3 more
  • 15places to stay within 10 kmRossio Hotel, Hotel Dom João III (Encerrado), Casa do Pátio and 12 more
  • 50restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts 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 Plane tree from Rossio.

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.

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Cabeça Gorda5.0 kmCabeço do Mouro12 kmCabeço do Nabo12 kmAlto do Matinho13 kmSapateira Grande20 kmSerra de Mouros21 kmSerra de Monte Novo22 kmCabeços do Seixo25 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.

Plátano Centenário (pormenor)
F nando · CC BY-SA 3.0
Plátano do Rossio - Portalegre - Portugal (46489073374)
Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL · CC BY-SA 2.0
Benvindo Ceia ptg 01
Stegop · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Plane tree from Rossio

Portugal

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 159Species

Oliveira do Mouchão

Portugal · 59 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 143Species

See the guide

Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra

Portugal · 132 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 851Species

See the guide

Whistler cork oak

Portugal · 135 km

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • 94Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q10350589) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,452 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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