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Tijuca Forest

Halley Pacheco de Oliveira · CC BY-SA 3.0

87% trees around it and 1,485 species recorded.

85Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyFungiBirdsWildlifeWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km87%
  • wild within 10 km73%
  • species recorded1,485
  • Altitude352 m

The forest around

87% 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 99%Built-up 1%Trees 85%Grassland 2%Bare ground 0%Built-up 13%Trees 51%Grassland 3%Water 21%Bare ground 1%Built-up 24%Trees 23%Grassland 2%Wetland 0%Water 43%Bare ground 1%Built-up 31%87%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km85%
  • 3–6 km51%
  • 6–10 km23%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees85%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up13%

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

1,485 species recorded.

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

Punchberry
PunchberryMyrcia splendens85 recordsVojtěch Zavadil · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pleroma granulosum
Pleroma granulosumPleroma granulosum61 recordsMauroguanandi · Public domain
Psychotria leiocarpa
Psychotria leiocarpaPsychotria leiocarpa56 recordsGilmar R. Ferreira · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jackfruit tree
Jackfruit treeArtocarpus heterophyllus51 recordsChirocca77 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Camasey cuatrocanales
Camasey cuatrocanalesMiconia mirabilis51 recordsBjoertvedt · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cannonball tree
Cannonball treeCouroupita guianensis50 recordsRanjithsiji · CC BY-SA 3.0
Anemia phyllitidis
Anemia phyllitidisAnemia phyllitidis42 recordsAlex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil · CC BY 2.0
Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye
Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeyeSphagneticola trilobata40 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stifftia chrysantha
Stifftia chrysanthaStifftia chrysantha40 recordsG. Lewis @ Kew · CC BY-SA 3.0
Miconia melastomoidesMiconia melastomoides85 records
Meriania glabraMeriania glabra57 records
Piper fluminensePiper fluminense56 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

85out of 100

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

  • 87%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 73%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,485Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 352 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

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

  1. Jan28°23°208 mm
  2. Feb28°23°152 mm
  3. Mar28°23°173 mm
  4. Apr27°22°100 mm
  5. May25°20°71 mm
  6. Jun24°19°49 mm
  7. Jul24°18°45 mm
  8. Aug25°18°42 mm
  9. Sep25°19°69 mm
  10. Oct26°20°108 mm
  11. Nov26°21°220 mm
  12. Dec27°22°232 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tijuca Forest.

Mountainous hand-planted rainforest in the city of Rio de Janeiro

Tijuca Forest is a forest in Brazil, 352 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 87% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 73% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,485 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 40 fungi, 422 birds and 23 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Punchberry, Pleroma granulosum and Psychotria leiocarpa.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

Floresta da Tijuca 60
Halley Pacheco de Oliveira · 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.

Tijuca 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmTrilha da Pedra da Gávea, Caminho da Pedra Bonita
  • 10named and notable trees within 6 kmMiguel, Flamboyant, Tamarindo and 7 more
  • 7picnic sites within 4 kmRecanto das Jaboticabeiras and 6 more
  • 9shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 42viewpoints within 5 kmIrmão Menor, Pico da Tijuca, Mirante da Paz and 39 more
  • 5visitor centres within 6 kmVisit Rio, Centro de Visitantes, Tourist Information and 2 more
  • 47car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmDescampado com bancos de troncos, AP do Rio de Janeiro
  • 382places to stay within 10 kmEscort Motel, Hotel Shalimar, Motel Sinless and 379 more
  • 121restaurants 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 Tijuca Forest.

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.

Peakyas292 mountains within 25 km
Morro Dois Irmãos3.2 kmCorcovado710 m · 3.6 kmPico da Tijuca4.8 kmPedra da Gávea842 m · 5.7 kmMorro da Babilônia7.7 kmSugarloaf Mountain395 m · 9.3 kmMorro do Castelo9.6 kmMorro Cara de Cão9.7 km
Coastya20 beaches within 10 km
Praia do Leblon3.7 kmPraia de São Conrado4.4 kmPraia de Ipanema4.6 kmPraia da Gávea4.6 kmCopacabana Beach6.8 kmPraia do Leme7.6 kmPraia dos Amores8.0 kmPraia da Urca8.5 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas2.2 km² · 3.6 kmLagoa da Tijuca2.8 km² · 10 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
PlanetaRioBortle 8 · 2.3 kmBrazil National ObservatoryBortle 9 · 7.7 kmValongo ObservatoryBortle 9 · 9.3 km
Viewyas7 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Vista Chinesa1.2 kmCorcovado710 m · 3.6 kmMirante do Sacopã4.1 kmPedra da Gávea842 m · 5.6 kmMirante do Rato Molhado7.4 kmSugarloaf Mountain395 m · 9.2 kmRio Star9.4 km
Cascadyas13 waterfalls within 15 km
Taunay waterfallthis placeCachoeira do Primata1.8 kmWaterfall Of Souls4.5 kmCascata de Rocaille da Floresta da Tijuca4.8 kmCascata da Quinta da Boa Vista6.8 kmCascata do Parque Guinle7.2 kmCascata do Jardim do Méier7.7 kmCascata - Jardim do Valongo9.3 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.

A sombra do Corcovado sob o Rio de Janeiro
Kariane Pontes · CC BY-SA 3.0
Amanhecer no Mirante Dona Marta - Parque Nacional da Tijuca
Rodrigochadi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Amanhecer no parque nacional da Tijuca
Eduardo Gabão · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Tijuca Forest

Brazil

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 1,485Species

Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

Brazil · 2 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 852Species

See the guide

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx

Brazil · 31 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 60Species

See the guide

Passa Quatro National Forest

Brazil · 186 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 374Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q14942956) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species156,338 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas

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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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