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St. Lucia Botanical Gardens

XeresNelro · CC BY-SA 4.0

84% trees around it and 91 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ArboretumWild

  • trees within 3 km84%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded91

The forest around

84% 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 90%Grassland 1%Built-up 10%Trees 83%Shrubland 0%Grassland 2%Water 14%Built-up 2%Trees 68%Grassland 2%Water 30%Built-up 0%Trees 52%Grassland 1%Water 46%Built-up 0%84%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km90%
  • 1–3 km83%
  • 3–6 km68%
  • 6–10 km52%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees83%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water14%
  • Built-up2%

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

91 species recorded.

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

Red ginger
Red gingerAlpinia purpurata5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cacao
CacaoTheobroma cacao4 recordsUSAID Digital Development · CC BY 2.0
Common calabash tree
Common calabash treeCrescentia cujete4 recordsMokkie · CC BY-SA 4.0
Broadleaf maidenhair
Broadleaf maidenhairAdiantum latifolium2 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0
Torch-ginger
Torch-gingerEtlingera elatior2 recordsDr. Thomas Liptak · CC BY-SA 4.0
Parakeetflower
ParakeetflowerHeliconia psittacorum webus2 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY-SA 4.0
Papaya
PapayaCarica papaya2 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Madamfate
MadamfateHippobroma longiflora2 recordsrainerburkard · CC BY 4.0
False heather
False heatherCuphea hyssopifolia2 recordsMelburnian · CC BY 2.5
Indian almond
Indian almondTerminalia catappa2 recordsJudgefloro · Public domain
Mango
MangoMangifera indica2 recordsWalter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) del. et lith. Description by John Smith (1798 - 1888) · Public domain
Giant taro
Giant taroAlocasia macrorrhizos2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 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).

  • 84%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 91Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to March.

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

  1. Jan27°26°68 mm
  2. Feb27°26°44 mm
  3. Mar27°26°48 mm
  4. Apr28°26°97 mm
  5. May28°27°102 mm
  6. Jun28°27°136 mm
  7. Jul29°27°154 mm
  8. Aug29°28°180 mm
  9. Sep29°28°182 mm
  10. Oct29°28°189 mm
  11. Nov28°27°159 mm
  12. Dec28°27°85 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

St. Lucia Botanical Gardens.

Botanical gardens in St. Lucia

St. Lucia Botanical Gardens is an arboretum in Saint Lucia.

Seen from space, 84% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

91 species have been recorded around it: 15 plants, 0 fungi, 76 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Red ginger, Cacao and Common calabash tree.

The best time to walk is from January to March.

Diamond Falls, Diamond Botanical Gardens, Soufriere, Saint Lucia
XeresNelro · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Sa 10:00-16:00; Su 10:00-15:00 · ticket required
  • De Residence Guest Houseplace to stay · 0.6 km · 77 within 10 km
  • Soufrièrenearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
  • Hewanorra International Airport (UVF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 17 km in a straight lineCar hire at UVF airport (Vieux Fort)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at UVF airport (Vieux Fort)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

St. Lucia Botanical Gardens 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmMount Gimie Trail, Edmund Forest Trail, Gros Piton Nature Trail and 2 more
  • 5picnic sites within 4 km
  • 8shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 20viewpoints within 5 kmSugar Beach, Soufriere, Gros Piton Viewpoint and 17 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmInformation Desk, Gros Piton Nature Trail Interpretation Centre
  • 22car parks within 3 km
  • 77places to stay within 10 kmDe Residence Guest House, Guest House, Frenz and 74 more
  • 41restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees 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 St. Lucia Botanical Gardens.

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.

Peakyas41 mountains within 25 km
Qualibou777 m · volcano · 1.5 kmMount Tabac720 m · 2.1 kmPetit Piton798 m · 2.7 kmMount Gimie952 m · 4.2 kmPitons786 m · 5.3 kmMount Belvidere432 m · 5.6 kmMount Grand Magazin593 m · 6.1 kmGros Piton798 m · 6.2 km
Islandyasthe island
Saint Lucia640 km²
Coastya5 beaches within 10 km
Trou au Diable3.5 kmAnse Chastanet3.6 kmLa Pointe Beach7.4 kmPetit Trou7.9 kmAnse John8.2 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mount Gimie952 m · 4.2 kmPitons786 m · 5.6 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Bat Cave, Saint Lucia2.6 km
Cascadyas24 waterfalls within 15 km
Piton Falls2.1 kmSpyke Falls2.9 kmBat Cave Falls6.9 kmDe Briel Waterfall7.1 kmThe Holy Grail Falls7.5 kmDevil’s Falls7.7 kmRiver Rock Waterfalls9.5 kmSault Falls13 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.

Waterfall in St. Lucia Botanical Gardens
Moon rabbit 365 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Palmiste, Saint Lucia - panoramio
Андрей Бобровский · CC BY 3.0
Palmiste, Saint Lucia - panoramio (1)
Андрей Бобровский · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

St. Lucia Botanical Gardens

Saint Lucia

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 91Species

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · 79 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 104Species

See the guide

Dominica Botanical Gardens

Dominica · 165 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Sir Eric Matthew Gairy Botanical Gardens

Grenada · 214 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 59%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 101Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5477354) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,992 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Viewyas, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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