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Stara Maslina

Кокан · CC0

54% trees around it and 24 species recorded.

58Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km54%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded24

The forest around

54% 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 57%Shrubland 12%Grassland 7%Built-up 24%Trees 54%Shrubland 22%Grassland 8%Water 3%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 12%Trees 39%Shrubland 10%Grassland 8%Water 35%Bare ground 0%Built-up 6%Trees 39%Shrubland 9%Grassland 11%Water 40%Built-up 1%54%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km57%
  • 1–3 km54%
  • 3–6 km39%
  • 6–10 km39%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees54%
  • Shrubland22%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up12%

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

24 species recorded.

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

Caper bush
Caper bushCapparis spinosa8 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Olive tree
Olive treeOlea europaea7 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Asphodeline lutea
Asphodeline luteaAsphodeline lutea6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinaberry
ChinaberryMelia azedarach5 recordsAnna Anichkova · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinese Dates
Chinese DatesZiziphus jujuba4 recordsRémi Tournebize · CC BY-SA 3.0
Annual mercury
Annual mercuryMercurialis annua2 recordsMichael Becker · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sun spurge
Sun spurgeEuphorbia helioscopia2 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Muster John Henry
Muster John HenryTagetes minuta2 recordsPaul venter · CC BY-SA 3.0
Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major2 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Campanula austroadriaticaCampanula austroadriatica3 records
Fragrant clematisClematis flammula2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

58out of 100

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

  • 54%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 24Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and in October.

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

  1. Jan8°3°142 mm
  2. Feb10°4°131 mm
  3. Mar13°7°125 mm
  4. Apr17°11°94 mm
  5. May22°15°80 mm
  6. Jun26°19°57 mm
  7. Jul30°22°32 mm
  8. Aug31°22°33 mm
  9. Sep25°18°104 mm
  10. Oct20°13°126 mm
  11. Nov15°9°170 mm
  12. Dec10°5°163 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Stara Maslina.

Monumental olive tree in Montenegro

Stara Maslina is a notable tree in Montenegro.

Seen from space, 54% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

24 species have been recorded around it: 12 plants, 0 fungi, 12 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Caper bush, Olive tree and Asphodeline lutea.

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

Oliva in Bar
Кокан · CC0

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.

Stara Maslina 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

  • 15marked trails within 5 kmPrimorska planinarska transverzala, Volujica-Crvena Stijena-Uvala Bigovica, Miljanov Most-Cervena Stijena and 12 more
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmStara Maslina, Backova palma, 01
  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 7shelters and huts within 6 kmDubrava and 6 more
  • 16viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Information Center, Turističko informativni biro Šušanj
  • 182car parks within 3 km
  • 13campsites within 10 kmKamp Bartula, Camping & Hostel Namaste, Autokamp Šušanj and 10 more
  • 250places to stay within 10 kmRenta stan Bar, Hotel Sidro, Vila Jadran and 247 more
  • 83restaurants 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 Stara Maslina.

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.

Peakyas241 mountains within 25 km
Volujica2.2 kmFilin Tuz2.4 kmKozjak7.7 kmVrsuta1,183 m · 8.9 kmMali Kručiš13 kmMožura13 kmMendra16 kmMaja e Tabia e Vogel171 m · 22 km
Coastya7 beaches within 10 km
Uvala Bigovica3.6 kmUvala Utin Potok3.8 kmUvala Mali Pijesak4.6 kmUvala Velji Pijesak5.3 kmUvala Pod Crnjaku6.8 kmUvala Masline7.7 kmUvala Paljuška8.9 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Lake Skadar18 species · 19 kmUlcinj Saltworks241 species · 22 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.

Old olive, stara maslina, info tabla
BuhaM · CC BY-SA 4.0
2023 Olive tree BAR17
Qasinka · CC0
Old olive in Bar, Montenegro
BuhaM · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Stara Maslina

Montenegro

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 54%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 24Species

Biogradska Gora

Montenegro · 99 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 165Species

See the guide

Botanical Gardens of Tirana

Albania · 102 km

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 111Species

See the guide

Petka

Croatia · 108 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 11%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 459Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3497092) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species161 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, Coastya, Birdyas

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.

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