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Samursky Nature Park

Khiste · CC BY-SA 4.0

86% trees around it and 249 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopy

  • trees within 3 km86%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded249

The forest around

86% 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 100%Grassland 0%Trees 84%Grassland 5%Wetland 1%Water 8%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%Trees 57%Grassland 7%Wetland 1%Water 31%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 2%Trees 32%Grassland 17%Wetland 1%Water 41%Bare ground 2%Cropland 6%Built-up 2%86%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km84%
  • 3–6 km57%
  • 6–10 km32%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees84%
  • Grassland5%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water8%
  • Bare ground1%
  • 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

249 species recorded.

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

Pyramidal orchid
Pyramidal orchidAnacamptis pyramidalis19 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lathyrus oleraceus
Lathyrus oleraceusLathyrus oleraceus19 recordsLudwik Polak · CC BY-SA 4.0
Anacamptis palustris
Anacamptis palustrisAnacamptis palustris16 recordsMg-k · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bee orchid
Bee orchidOphrys apifera13 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sword-leaved helleborine
Sword-leaved helleborineCephalanthera longifolia13 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus13 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Dwarf Elder
Dwarf ElderSambucus ebulus13 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Convolvulus persicus
Convolvulus persicusConvolvulus persicus13 recordsСпасимир (Spasimir Pilev) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Reed
Common ReedPhragmites australis12 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Smilax excelsa
Smilax excelsaSmilax excelsa12 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wood Spurge
Wood SpurgeEuphorbia amygdaloides11 recordsRobert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0
Holy bramble
Holy brambleRubus sanctus10 recordsGideon Pisanty ( Gidip ) · CC BY 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.

81out of 100

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

  • 86%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 249Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

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

  1. Jan7°5°27 mm
  2. Feb6°4°30 mm
  3. Mar8°6°26 mm
  4. Apr10°8°24 mm
  5. May16°15°27 mm
  6. Jun22°20°21 mm
  7. Jul26°24°19 mm
  8. Aug26°25°19 mm
  9. Sep23°21°28 mm
  10. Oct18°16°44 mm
  11. Nov12°10°36 mm
  12. Dec9°7°29 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Samursky Nature Park.

Samursky Nature Park is a forest in Azerbaijan.

Seen from space, 86% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

249 species have been recorded around it: 128 plants, 12 fungi, 103 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Pyramidal orchid, Lathyrus oleraceus and Anacamptis palustris.

The best time to walk is in October.

Samurforest
Khiste · 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.

Samursky Nature Park 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 kmЭкологическая тропа «Лесная»
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmПлатан
  • 7picnic sites within 4 km
  • 6shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 16places to stay within 10 kmСамурский рай, Якорь, ELAY Ailəvi istirahət mərkəzi and 13 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Samursky Nature Park.

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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Bugda-Tapa Gora16 kmGora Donguznokhur19 kmGora Palasa-Syrt20 kmGora Mulkudug24 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.

Samur forest
Anzor Agamirzoyev · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Tamdikatamdikabalebale · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Tamdikatamdikabalebale · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Samursky Nature Park

Azerbaijan

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 249Species

Topkhana Forest

Azerbaijan · 278 km

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 43%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 244Species

See the guide

Mardakan Arboretum

Azerbaijan · 202 km

  • 21Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 8Species

See the guide

National Botanical Garden of Georgia

Georgia · 310 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 534Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q28035216) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,870 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

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

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