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Ravna Vala

Smooth O · CC BY-SA 4.0

82% trees around it and 102 species recorded.

78Forestyas Score

ForestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km82%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded102
  • Altitude1,360 m

The forest around

82% 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 97%Bare ground 2%Built-up 1%Trees 80%Grassland 18%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%Trees 67%Grassland 33%Cropland 0%Trees 65%Grassland 33%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%82%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km97%
  • 1–3 km80%
  • 3–6 km67%
  • 6–10 km65%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees80%
  • Grassland18%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up1%

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

102 species recorded.

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

Coralroot bittercress
Coralroot bittercressCardamine bulbifera9 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Dwarf honeysuckle
Dwarf honeysuckleLonicera xylosteum9 recordsDaniel Fuchs · CC BY-SA 2.5
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum7 recordsJopi · Public domain
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa7 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Helleborus odorus
Helleborus odorusHelleborus odorus7 recordsClaire H. from New York City, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aposeris foetida
Aposeris foetidaAposeris foetida6 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY-SA 3.0
Great woodrush
Great woodrushLuzula sylvatica4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus4 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
True lover's knot
True lover's knotParis quadrifolia4 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · Public domain
Martagon lily
Martagon lilyLilium martagon3 recordsTinelot Wittermans · CC BY-SA 3.0
David’s-harp
David’s-harpPolygonatum multiflorum3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

78out of 100

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

  • 82%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 102Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,360 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in September.

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

  1. Jan2°-5°101 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°96 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°90 mm
  4. Apr13°3°76 mm
  5. May17°7°77 mm
  6. Jun21°11°74 mm
  7. Jul24°13°48 mm
  8. Aug25°13°48 mm
  9. Sep20°8°86 mm
  10. Oct15°5°98 mm
  11. Nov9°1°120 mm
  12. Dec3°-4°115 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Ravna Vala.

Primeval forest in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ravna Vala is a forest in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1,360 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 82% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

102 species have been recorded around it: 57 plants, 0 fungi, 45 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Coralroot bittercress, Dwarf honeysuckle and Woodruff.

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

Ravna Vala 01
Smooth O · 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.

Ravna Vala 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 kmJavorov Do - Bijele Vode, Babin Do - Javorov Do, Bijele Vode - Lukavac and 3 more
  • 6picnic sites within 4 km
  • 10shelters and huts within 6 kmPD Prijatelji prirode, Planinarski dom Bijele Vode, Edelweiss Mountain Lodge and 7 more
  • 7viewpoints within 5 km
  • 9car parks within 3 km
  • 18places to stay within 10 kmAparthotel Phoenix, Hotel Bjelašnica, Maršal and 15 more
  • 11restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Ravna Vala.

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.

Peakyas185 mountains within 25 km
Bjelašnica (peak)2,067 m · 2.6 kmMala Vlahinja1,879 m · 4.2 kmVelika Vlahinja1,941 m · 5.1 kmOgorjeli Kuk1,879 m · 12 kmOpaljeni Kuk1,976 m · 14 kmTreskavica2,088 m · 16 kmNikoline Stijene1,849 m · 17 kmTrebević1,629 m · 18 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
TreskavicaBortle 2 · 16 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Klokočevica2.7 kmKazani pit killings19 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.

Ravna Vala 02
Smooth O · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Ravna Vala

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 102Species

Ambassadors' Alley

Bosnia and Herzegovina · 20 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 62%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 380Species

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Janj

Bosnia and Herzegovina · 93 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 1Species

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  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 165Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q21731949) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species620 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, Darkskyas, Cavernyas

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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