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Rákoczi Oak

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

56% trees around it and 119 species recorded.

53Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km56%
  • wild within 10 km67%
  • species recorded119
  • Altitude304 m

The forest around

56% 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 64%Grassland 3%Cropland 32%Built-up 1%Trees 55%Grassland 12%Cropland 30%Built-up 3%Trees 49%Grassland 9%Water 0%Cropland 40%Built-up 2%Trees 58%Grassland 13%Water 0%Cropland 26%Built-up 3%56%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km64%
  • 1–3 km55%
  • 3–6 km49%
  • 6–10 km58%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees55%
  • Grassland12%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland30%
  • Built-up3%

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

119 species recorded.

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

Hairy woodrush
Hairy woodrushLuzula pilosa10 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus10 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
False broom
False broomBrachypodium sylvaticum9 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Pere prlpz assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Wood bluegrass
Wood bluegrassPoa nemoralis8 recordsSarefo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bugle
BugleAjuga reptans8 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Early dog-violet
Early dog-violetViola reichenbachiana8 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna8 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain sedge
Mountain sedgeCarex montana7 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Carex digitata
Carex digitataCarex digitata7 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 13:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wayfaring tree
Wayfaring treeViburnum lantana7 recordsOpioła Jerzy · CC BY 2.5
Wild strawberry
Wild strawberryFragaria vesca7 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas7 recordsB.navez · 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.

53out of 100

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

  • 56%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 67%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 119Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 304 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-1°-7°55 mm
  2. Feb2°-6°47 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°46 mm
  4. Apr14°3°42 mm
  5. May19°8°76 mm
  6. Jun23°12°78 mm
  7. Jul25°14°83 mm
  8. Aug25°13°70 mm
  9. Sep19°8°68 mm
  10. Oct13°4°59 mm
  11. Nov7°0°52 mm
  12. Dec1°-5°52 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Rákoczi Oak.

Rákoczi Oak is a notable tree in Slovakia, 304 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 56% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 67% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

119 species have been recorded around it: 119 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Hairy woodrush, Hornbeam and False broom.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Rákoczi Oak seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Rákoczi Oak 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmMalý timoradzský okruh, Náučný chodník Vodná nádrž Prusy and 4 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmRakocziho dub
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 6shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 12viewpoints within 5 kmVysoka and 11 more
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmKaštieľ Ottlýk, Delta, Motorest ESSO DALLAS and 16 more
  • 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 Rákoczi Oak.

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.

Peakyas54 mountains within 25 km
Baské955 m · 11 kmČierny vrch, 997 m997 m · 12 kmRokoš1,010 m · 13 kmSuchý vrch1,028 m · 13 kmVápeč956 m · 18 kmTemešská skala910 m · 20 kmPanská Javorina943 m · 20 kmStrážov1,213 m · 24 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Strážovské vrchy16 species · 21 kmDubnické štrkovisko129 species · 22 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 km
Brložná diera14 kmJaskyňa pod Jeleňom16 kmJaskyňa nad cestou19 km

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

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  • 119Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7385865) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species651 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, Birdyas, Cavernyas

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

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