Taiwan forest
Wuling National Forest Recreation Area
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96% trees around it and 618 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km96%
- wild within 10 km99%
- species recorded618
- Altitude2,024 m
The forest around
96% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km82%
- 1–3 km98%
- 3–6 km93%
- 6–10 km92%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees98%
- Grassland2%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland0%
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
618 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 618Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 2,024 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from February to April and in November.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan6°94 mm
- Feb7°89 mm
- Mar9°130 mm
- Apr12°129 mm
- May16°270 mm
- Jun18°303 mm
- Jul19°183 mm
- Aug19°311 mm
- Sep17°307 mm
- Oct14°151 mm
- Nov12°139 mm
- Dec8°104 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Wuling National Forest Recreation Area.
Forest in Taichung
Wuling National Forest Recreation Area is a forest in Taiwan, 2,024 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
618 species have been recorded around it: 360 plants, 37 fungi, 198 birds and 23 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Rhododendron pseudochrysanthum, Lyonia ovalifolia and Chinese cork oak.
The best time to walk is from February to April and in November.
Get there and walk
- 武陵露營區campsite · 1.0 km · 18 within 10 km
- 武陵富野渡假村place to stay · 4.1 km · 5 within 10 km
- Hualien Chiashan Airport (HUN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 52 km in a straight lineCar hire in TaipeiDiscover Cars · sponsored link↗
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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 8marked trails within 5 km桃山瀑布步道, 武陵四秀, 雪東線 and 5 more
- 4named and notable trees within 6 km池有名樹, 鐵衫巨木, 羅馬神木 and 1 more
- 1picnic sites within 4 km
- 25shelters and huts within 6 km瓢簞避難山屋, 松濤亭, 觀月亭 and 22 more
- 12viewpoints within 5 km哭坡觀景台, 雪山登山口觀景台, 觀景台 and 9 more
- 3visitor centres within 6 km雪山登山口服務站, 武陵遊客中心, 雪霸國家公園遊客中心
- 5car parks within 3 km
- 18campsites within 10 km武陵露營區, 武陵農場露營區, 獵寮 and 15 more
- 5places to stay within 10 km武陵富野渡假村, 武陵國民賓館, 波波家 and 2 more
- 2restaurants 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 Wuling National Forest Recreation Area.
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.
Peakyas189 mountains within 25 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Wuling National Forest Recreation Area
Taiwan
- 86Forestyas Score
- 96%Trees
- 99%Wild
- 618Species
Qilan National Forest Recreation Area
Taiwan · 29 km
- 83Forestyas Score
- 88%Trees
- 99%Wild
- 257Species
Basianshan National Forest Recreation Area
Taiwan · 36 km
- 84Forestyas Score
- 96%Trees
- 100%Wild
- 391Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11125013) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 68,188 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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