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Prof. Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Garden

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9% trees around it and 186 species recorded.

30Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km9%
  • wild within 10 km53%
  • species recorded186

The forest around

9% 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 28%Grassland 6%Wetland 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 65%Trees 7%Grassland 4%Wetland 0%Water 7%Bare ground 1%Built-up 80%Trees 8%Grassland 9%Wetland 1%Water 13%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 68%Trees 15%Grassland 24%Wetland 0%Water 27%Bare ground 1%Cropland 3%Built-up 30%9%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km28%
  • 1–3 km7%
  • 3–6 km8%
  • 6–10 km15%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees7%
  • Grassland4%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water7%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up80%

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

186 species recorded.

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

Baldcypress
BaldcypressTaxodium distichum9 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Sky Flower
Sky FlowerDuranta erecta8 recordsGowrivemban · CC0
Phytolacca dioica
Phytolacca dioicaPhytolacca dioica8 recordsGabriel Collares · CC BY 4.0
Myrrhinium atropurpureum
Myrrhinium atropurpureumMyrrhinium atropurpureum7 recordsAnamafe2012 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Luehea divaricata
Luehea divaricataLuehea divaricata7 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Prairienymph
PrairienymphHerbertia lahue6 recordsJason Hollinger · CC BY 2.0
Broad Bean
Broad BeanVicia faba4 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fameflower
FameflowerTalinum paniculatum4 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Verdolaga
VerdolagaPortulaca oleracea4 recordsZooFari · CC BY-SA 3.0
Feverfew
FeverfewTanacetum parthenium4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Common beet
Common beetBeta vulgaris4 recordsWalther Otto Müller · Public domain
Vachellia caven
Vachellia cavenVachellia caven3 recordsMalena Lorente · CC BY 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

30out of 100

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

  • 9%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 53%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 186Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and in October.

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

  1. Jan26°20°102 mm
  2. Feb26°20°106 mm
  3. Mar24°18°118 mm
  4. Apr20°16°114 mm
  5. May17°13°84 mm
  6. Jun14°10°98 mm
  7. Jul12°8°92 mm
  8. Aug14°9°89 mm
  9. Sep16°10°96 mm
  10. Oct18°13°103 mm
  11. Nov22°16°96 mm
  12. Dec25°18°86 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Prof. Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Montevideo, Uruguay

Prof. Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Uruguay.

Seen from space, 9% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 53% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

186 species have been recorded around it: 41 plants, 1 fungi, 143 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Baldcypress, Sky Flower and Phytolacca dioica.

The best time to walk is from April to May and in October.

Jardín Botánico de Montevideo
Georgez · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Prof. Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Garden 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

  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmEl ombú, Ombú
  • 4picnic sites within 4 km
  • 2shelters and huts within 6 kmPabellón de la Música
  • 34car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 121places to stay within 10 kmCane B&B, Che Lagarto, Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel and 118 more
  • 65restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Prof. Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Garden.

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.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Cerrito de la Victoria72 m · 2.7 kmCerro de Montevideo134 m · 6.4 kmCuchilla de Pereira9.7 kmCuchilla de Miguelete12 kmCuchilla de Periera14 km
Coastya6 beaches within 10 km
Playa Capurro2.1 kmPlaya del Cerro6.3 kmPlaya Ramírez6.8 kmPlaya Pocitas7.8 kmPlaya del Buceo8.5 kmPlaya de Malvín9.4 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Observatorio del Instituto de Profesores ArtigasBortle 8 · 3.9 kmPlanetario Municipal Agrimensor Germán BarbatoBortle 9 · 6.9 kmLos Molinos ObservatoryBortle 7 · 12 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.

Actividades recreativas en el jardin Botanico en el marco de Monteverano - 20240209dicimouysm9574
Santiago Mazzarovich · CC BY-SA 4.0
Actividades recreativas en el jardin Botanico en el marco de Monteverano - 20240209dicimouysm9581
Santiago Mazzarovich · CC BY-SA 4.0
Banda Sinfonica Queer en el jardin Botanico - 20230926dicimouyit0011
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Prof. Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Garden

Uruguay

  • 30Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 53%Wild
  • 186Species

Rosaleda

Uruguay · 1 km

  • 31Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 212Species

See the guide

Arboretum Lussich

Uruguay · 106 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 141Species

See the guide

El Rosedal De Palermo

Argentina · 205 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 396Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5926445) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species41,747 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, Coastya, Darkskyas

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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