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Soto de Viñuelas

Axel Schlaefer · CC BY-SA 3.0

18% trees around it and 402 species recorded.

45Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km18%
  • wild within 10 km80%
  • species recorded402
  • Altitude694 m

The forest around

18% 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 35%Shrubland 1%Grassland 38%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 24%Trees 16%Shrubland 1%Grassland 61%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 20%Trees 17%Shrubland 1%Grassland 72%Bare ground 0%Cropland 7%Built-up 3%Trees 18%Shrubland 1%Grassland 56%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 10%Built-up 14%18%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km35%
  • 1–3 km16%
  • 3–6 km17%
  • 6–10 km18%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees16%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland61%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up20%

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

402 species recorded.

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

Quercus rotundifolia
Quercus rotundifoliaQuercus rotundifolia126 recordsPor los caminos de Málaga · CC BY 2.0
Thapsia villosa
Thapsia villosaThapsia villosa59 recordsJavier martin · Public domain
Common gum cistus
Common gum cistusCistus ladanifer34 recordsTaken by Carsten Niehaus ( user:Lumbar ). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Andryala integrifolia
Andryala integrifoliaAndryala integrifolia30 recordsJavier martin · Public domain
Shrubby germander
Shrubby germanderTeucrium fruticans29 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum29 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spanish oyster thistle
Spanish oyster thistleScolymus hispanicus27 recordsRiad Salih · CC BY 4.0
Quercus faginea
Quercus fagineaQuercus faginea26 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Carlosblh assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Black poplar
Black poplarPopulus nigra25 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nettle Tree
Nettle TreeCeltis australis23 recordsLuis Fernández García · CC BY-SA 4.0
Narrow-leafed Ash
Narrow-leafed AshFraxinus angustifolia23 recordsJavier martin · Public domain
Laurustinus
LaurustinusViburnum tinus19 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

45out of 100

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

  • 18%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 80%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 402Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 694 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan8°-1°38 mm
  2. Feb10°-1°39 mm
  3. Mar14°2°48 mm
  4. Apr18°5°52 mm
  5. May23°9°42 mm
  6. Jun30°14°22 mm
  7. Jul34°17°9 mm
  8. Aug33°17°14 mm
  9. Sep27°13°24 mm
  10. Oct20°8°66 mm
  11. Nov13°2°54 mm
  12. Dec9°0°40 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Soto de Viñuelas.

Protected municipal forest in Madrid, Spain

Soto de Viñuelas is a forest in Spain, 694 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 18% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 80% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

402 species have been recorded around it: 218 plants, 9 fungi, 168 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Quercus rotundifolia, Thapsia villosa and Common gum cistus.

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

2010-05-01 Soto de Viñuelas - panoramio (1)
Axel Schlaefer · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Soto de Viñuelas 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 kmRuta Jacobea Madrileña
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmCiprés de Arizona del Castillo de Viñuelas, Enebro del Cerro de Valviejo
  • 3picnic sites within 4 kmPicinas foresta
  • 16shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 63car parks within 3 km
  • 29places to stay within 10 kmHostal Tres Cantos, Albergue de Peregrinos Tres Cantos, Jardín Tres Cantos and 26 more
  • 60restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Soto de Viñuelas.

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.

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
cerro de San Pedro1,425 m · 13 kmSierra del Hoyo20 kmCerro Garabitas21 kmPríncipe Pío21 kmCerro de San Blas22 kmEl Yelmo1,717 m · 22 kmRisco de El Pájaro1,549 m · 24 kmCerro de los Hoyos1,950 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
El Pardo Reservoir2.7 km² · 11 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Spanish National ObservatoryBortle 9 · 22 kmMadrid PlanetariumBortle 9 · 24 kmEuropean Space Astronomy CentreBortle 6 · 29 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.

Soto de Viñuelas 2
Esetena · CC BY-SA 3.0
2010-02-28 Camino junto al Soto de Viñuelas - panoramio
Axel Schlaefer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arroyo de Viñuelas
Esetena · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Soto de Viñuelas

Spain

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 18%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 402Species

Hayedo de Montejo

Spain · 57 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 366Species

See the guide

Hayedo de Tejera Negra

Spain · 72 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 195Species

See the guide

Monte de El Pardo

Spain · 10 km

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 314Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6132665) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species26,729 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here