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Tefé National Forest

Cesar Augusto Chirosa Horie · CC BY-SA 4.0

45% trees around it and 358 species recorded.

65Forestyas Score

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  • trees within 3 km45%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded358

The forest around

45% 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 18%Grassland 4%Wetland 8%Water 70%Trees 48%Grassland 3%Wetland 2%Water 47%Trees 48%Grassland 5%Wetland 4%Water 42%Trees 72%Grassland 5%Wetland 3%Water 20%45%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km18%
  • 1–3 km48%
  • 3–6 km48%
  • 6–10 km72%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees48%
  • Grassland3%
  • Wetland2%
  • Water47%

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

358 species recorded.

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

Caryocar villosum
Caryocar villosumCaryocar villosum19 recordsRenan Chisté · Public domain
Lindackeria paludosa
Lindackeria paludosaLindackeria paludosa8 recordsMuseu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) · CC BY 4.0
Cypressvine
CypressvineIpomoea quamoclit7 recordshttps://www.flickr.com/photos/opyadav/ · CC BY 2.0
Gustavia hexapetala
Gustavia hexapetalaGustavia hexapetala7 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Virola elongata
Virola elongataVirola elongata7 recordsMartius · Public domain
Discophora guianensis
Discophora guianensisDiscophora guianensis7 recordsInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica - INMA · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fall Panic Grass
Fall Panic GrassPanicum dichotomiflorum6 recordsShow ryu . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Achiote
AchioteBixa orellana5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Solanum kioniotrichumSolanum kioniotrichum8 records
Siparuna cristataSiparuna cristata8 records
Ischnosiphon polyphyllusIschnosiphon polyphyllus7 records
Doliocarpus novogranatensisDoliocarpus novogranatensis7 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

65out of 100

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

  • 45%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 358Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to September.

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

  1. Jan28°24°284 mm
  2. Feb28°24°263 mm
  3. Mar28°23°295 mm
  4. Apr28°24°316 mm
  5. May28°23°271 mm
  6. Jun28°23°160 mm
  7. Jul28°23°134 mm
  8. Aug29°24°107 mm
  9. Sep29°24°112 mm
  10. Oct29°24°157 mm
  11. Nov29°24°191 mm
  12. Dec28°24°233 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tefé National Forest.

Forest in Brazil

Tefé National Forest is a forest in Brazil.

Seen from space, 45% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

358 species have been recorded around it: 85 plants, 0 fungi, 273 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Caryocar villosum, Lindackeria paludosa and Cypressvine.

The best time to walk is from June to September.

FLONA Tefé Cesar Augusto Chirosa Horie (05)
Cesar Augusto Chirosa Horie · 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.

Tefé National Forest 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

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

    Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

    Photographs

    The forest, as people saw it.

    Rio Tefe
    Wilson Dias/ABr · CC BY 3.0 br
    Rio solimões, Amazonas
    Sjonas12 · CC BY-SA 4.0
    RIO SOLIMÕES
    Sjonas12 · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q10282889) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species2,229 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

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

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