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Sisters Olive Trees of Noah

Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA · CC BY 2.0

64% trees around it and 3 species recorded.

55Forestyas Score

Notable treeMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km64%
  • wild within 10 km97%
  • species recorded3
  • Altitude1,180 m

The forest around

64% 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%Shrubland 14%Grassland 14%Bare ground 2%Built-up 6%Trees 64%Shrubland 16%Grassland 15%Bare ground 1%Built-up 4%Trees 61%Shrubland 12%Grassland 24%Bare ground 1%Built-up 2%Trees 50%Shrubland 11%Grassland 34%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 3%64%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km64%
  • 1–3 km64%
  • 3–6 km61%
  • 6–10 km50%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees64%
  • Shrubland16%
  • Grassland15%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up4%

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

3 species recorded.

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

Aleppo oak
Aleppo oakQuercus infectoria2 recordsGideon Pisanty ( Gidip ) · CC BY 3.0
Storax
StoraxStyrax officinalis2 recordsאיתן פרמן · CC BY 3.0
Rhamnus punctatusRhamnus punctata2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

55out of 100

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

  • 64%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 97%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 3Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,180 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in November.

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

  1. Jan14°9°115 mm
  2. Feb15°9°82 mm
  3. Mar17°11°43 mm
  4. Apr20°13°23 mm
  5. May24°17°9 mm
  6. Jun28°20°2 mm
  7. Jul30°22°0 mm
  8. Aug30°23°1 mm
  9. Sep28°21°5 mm
  10. Oct25°19°23 mm
  11. Nov20°14°56 mm
  12. Dec16°11°96 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sisters Olive Trees of Noah.

Grove of olive trees in Lebanon; possibly the oldest living non-clonal trees

Sisters Olive Trees of Noah is a notable tree in Lebanon, 1,180 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 64% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 97% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

3 species have been recorded around it: 3 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Aleppo oak, Storax and Rhamnus punctatus.

The best time to walk is in April and in November.

Laqlouq Trees (4042705168)
Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA · CC BY 2.0

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.

Sisters Olive Trees of Noah 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 kmSentier de Montagne du Liban
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 1picnic sites within 4 kmabou maroun
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 kmAbi Mansour
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 km
  • 10places to stay within 10 kmبيتنا في بشعلة, فندق دوما, Les Filles De Papa Guest House and 7 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Sisters Olive Trees of Noah.

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.

Peakyas188 mountains within 25 km
Dahr el Ouata12 kmJabal al-Munaytirah16 kmQornet el Ouast17 kmSen Ehden18 kmJabal ech Chalqa23 kmDahr Bou Aamr23 kmBirket Khadra24 kmKaoumet el Qamh24 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Theoprosopon77 species · 18 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Baatara gorge waterfall5.4 kmAfqa Grotto16 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Baatara gorge waterfall225 m · 5.4 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Sisters Olive Trees of Noah

Lebanon

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 3Species

Horsh Ehden

Lebanon · 19 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 36%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 149Species

See the guide

Cedars of God

Lebanon · 21 km

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 6%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 123Species

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Birya forest

Israel · 137 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 288Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q15872847) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species18 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, Cascadyas

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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