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Vanadzor Botanical Garden

Michal Gorski · CC BY-SA 3.0

23% trees around it and 82 species recorded.

51Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km23%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded82
  • Altitude1,317 m

The forest around

23% 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 19%Grassland 54%Built-up 27%Trees 24%Grassland 47%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 28%Trees 43%Grassland 50%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 7%Trees 35%Grassland 63%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%23%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km19%
  • 1–3 km24%
  • 3–6 km43%
  • 6–10 km35%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees24%
  • Grassland47%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up28%

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

82 species recorded.

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

Caucasian Oak
Caucasian OakQuercus macranthera7 recordsshioshvili at Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Spindle tree
Spindle treeEuonymus europaeus3 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Brown Birch
Brown BirchBetula pubescens3 recordsDirk Ingo Franke · CC BY-SA 2.0
Field Maple
Field MapleAcer campestre2 recordsWillow · CC BY-SA 2.5
Salix pseudomedemiiSalix pseudomedemii3 records
Vicia abbreviataVicia abbreviata2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

51out of 100

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

  • 23%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 82Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,317 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan0°-10°23 mm
  2. Feb2°-8°19 mm
  3. Mar8°-4°29 mm
  4. Apr13°0°55 mm
  5. May18°5°64 mm
  6. Jun22°9°57 mm
  7. Jul25°12°32 mm
  8. Aug25°12°30 mm
  9. Sep21°8°23 mm
  10. Oct15°3°38 mm
  11. Nov7°-3°24 mm
  12. Dec2°-8°23 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Vanadzor Botanical Garden.

Vanadzor Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Armenia, 1,317 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 23% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

82 species have been recorded around it: 6 plants, 0 fungi, 76 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Caucasian Oak, Spindle tree and Brown Birch.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Vanadzor, Armenia - panoramio (4)
Michal Gorski · 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.

Vanadzor Botanical Garden 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

  • 3named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 8picnic sites within 4 km
  • 68shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 6viewpoints within 5 km
  • 33car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmGlamping Park, Camping area and 3 more
  • 39places to stay within 10 kmAuRoom, Down Town, "MagHay B&B" and 36 more
  • 49restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Vanadzor Botanical Garden.

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.

Peakyas32 mountains within 25 km
Gomasar2,885 m · 12 kmUghtaqar2,861 m · 16 kmTezhler3,101 m · 18 kmArtavaz2,929 m · 20 kmAmpasar3,053 m · 20 kmKhentasar3,046 m · 21 kmTukhmanuk2,761 m · 21 kmMokhrasar2,716 m · 22 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Debed CanyonBortle 2 · 26 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Pambak River86 kmDzoraget River67 km · 43 m³/s

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Vanadzor, Armenia - panoramio (6)
Michal Gorski · CC BY-SA 3.0
Art+Feminism in Vanadzor (1)
Armineaghayan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Art+Feminism in Vanadzor (3)
Armineaghayan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Vanadzor Botanical Garden

Armenia

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 23%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 82Species

Sevan Botanical Garden

Armenia · 49 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 268Species

See the guide

National Botanical Garden of Georgia

Georgia · 100 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 534Species

See the guide

Yerevan Botanical Garden

Armenia · 68 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 202Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5926580) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,135 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, Darkskyas, Riveryas

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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