Portugal arboretum
Rose garden of Serralves
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14% trees around it and 293 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km14%
- wild within 10 km61%
- species recorded293
- Altitude60 m
The forest around
14% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km15%
- 1–3 km14%
- 3–6 km11%
- 6–10 km17%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees14%
- Grassland8%
- Water22%
- Bare ground2%
- Cropland1%
- Built-up53%
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
293 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 61%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 293Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 60 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in May.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan8°138 mm
- Feb8°97 mm
- Mar9°112 mm
- Apr10°91 mm
- May12°60 mm
- Jun15°32 mm
- Jul16°13 mm
- Aug16°22 mm
- Sep15°49 mm
- Oct14°137 mm
- Nov11°137 mm
- Dec8°122 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Rose garden of Serralves.
Rose garden in Porto, Portugal
Rose garden of Serralves is an arboretum in Portugal.
Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 61% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
293 species have been recorded around it: 109 plants, 39 fungi, 145 birds and 0 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Australian cheesewood, Bermuda buttercup and Licorice-plant.
The best time to walk is in May.
Get there and walk
- Orbitur Canidelocampsite · 3.9 km · 8 within 10 km
- Amadeosplace to stay · 3.1 km · 673 within 10 km
- Pinheiro Mansonearest town · 0.6 km in a straight line
- Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 km in a straight lineCar hire at OPO airport (Porto)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 9marked trails within 5 kmCaminho Português da Costa, Caminho Português por Braga, Caminho Português da Costa - Via Aeroporto and 6 more
- 40named and notable trees within 6 kmJacarandá, Capela Incomum, Teixo and 37 more
- 49picnic sites within 4 km
- 64shelters and huts within 6 kmpraça de taxís do Hospital São João and 63 more
- 88viewpoints within 5 kmMiradouro do Largo de Aviz, Miradouro da Escarpa, Miradouro da Rua das Aldas and 85 more
- 7visitor centres within 6 kmPosto de Turismo de Matosinhos, Posto de Informação Turística Oficial do Porto (Aliados), Porto Welcome Center and 4 more
- 1,369car parks within 3 km
- 8campsites within 10 kmOrbitur Canidelo, Parque de Campismo de Salgueiros, Parque de Campismo Marisol and 5 more
- 673places to stay within 10 kmAmadeos, Residencial Brasília, Hospedaria das Taipas and 670 more
- 650restaurants 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 Rose garden of Serralves.
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.
Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Coastya35 beaches within 10 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Rose garden of Serralves
Portugal
- 38Forestyas Score
- 14%Trees
- 61%Wild
- 293Species
Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra
Portugal · 108 km
- 69Forestyas Score
- 42%Trees
- 81%Wild
- 851Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q96380136) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 29,796 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Coastya, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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