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Viphya Forest

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

26% trees around it and 2 species recorded.

30Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km26%
  • wild within 10 km82%
  • species recorded2
  • Altitude562 m

The forest around

26% 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 29%Shrubland 67%Grassland 4%Trees 26%Shrubland 45%Grassland 19%Cropland 11%Trees 18%Shrubland 45%Grassland 26%Water 0%Cropland 11%Trees 19%Shrubland 32%Grassland 27%Wetland 0%Cropland 22%Built-up 0%26%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km29%
  • 1–3 km26%
  • 3–6 km18%
  • 6–10 km19%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees26%
  • Shrubland45%
  • Grassland19%
  • Wetland0%
  • Cropland11%
  • Built-up0%

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

2 species recorded.

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

Black Crake
Black CrakeAmaurornis flavirostra2 recordsLip Kee · CC BY-SA 2.0
African Jacana
African JacanaActophilornis africanus2 recordsChris Eason · CC BY 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

30out of 100

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

  • 26%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 82%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 562 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan28°25°274 mm
  2. Feb28°25°211 mm
  3. Mar28°25°156 mm
  4. Apr28°24°48 mm
  5. May28°22°8 mm
  6. Jun26°20°2 mm
  7. Jul26°20°2 mm
  8. Aug28°22°2 mm
  9. Sep31°24°2 mm
  10. Oct33°26°10 mm
  11. Nov33°27°55 mm
  12. Dec30°26°212 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Viphya Forest.

Viphya Forest is a forest in Malawi, 562 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 26% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 82% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

2 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 2 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Viphya Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Viphya 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.

    In our other atlases

    Around Viphya 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.

    Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
    Mbonekela6.2 kmSani Hill620 m · 13 kmPumbati Hill22 kmNyenji Hill25 km

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

    Other forests nearby.

    Viphya Forest

    Malawi

    • 30Forestyas Score
    • 26%Trees
    • 82%Wild
    • 2Species

    Chikangawa Forest Reserve

    Malawi · 144 km

    • 63Forestyas Score
    • 67%Trees
    • 91%Wild
    • 29Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q10715915) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species12 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

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

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