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Abr Forest

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51% trees around it and 59 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km51%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded59
  • Altitude2,183 m

The forest around

51% 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 26%Shrubland 4%Grassland 68%Cropland 2%Trees 55%Shrubland 2%Grassland 42%Cropland 1%Trees 54%Shrubland 3%Grassland 39%Bare ground 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 45%Shrubland 3%Grassland 33%Bare ground 13%Cropland 5%51%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km26%
  • 1–3 km55%
  • 3–6 km54%
  • 6–10 km45%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees55%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland42%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • 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

59 species recorded.

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

Allium grandeAllium grande2 records
Chestnut-leaf oakQuercus castaneifolia2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

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

  • 51%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 59Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,183 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April and in November.

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

  1. Jan10°-1°23 mm
  2. Feb12°0°30 mm
  3. Mar17°4°39 mm
  4. Apr22°8°32 mm
  5. May28°14°19 mm
  6. Jun33°18°8 mm
  7. Jul35°20°7 mm
  8. Aug35°20°5 mm
  9. Sep30°16°10 mm
  10. Oct24°11°17 mm
  11. Nov16°4°29 mm
  12. Dec11°0°22 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Abr Forest.

Forest in Shahrud County, Iran

Abr Forest is a forest in Iran, 2,183 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 51% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

59 species have been recorded around it: 2 plants, 0 fungi, 57 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from March to April and in November.

Abr Jungle in Iran by Pouria Afkhami pixoos 01
Pixoos · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • کمپ جای خوبcampsite · 1.6 km · 2 within 10 km
  • سرخدار اکولوژplace to stay · 7.5 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Abarsenjnearest town · 22 km in a straight line
  • Sari Dasht-e Naz International Airport (SRY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 167 km in a straight line

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.

Abr 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

  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmجنگل ابر, بهترین نمای برای جنگل ابر
  • 2campsites within 10 kmکمپ جای خوب, آرام حاج سید نظام الدین
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmسرخدار اکولوژ
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks 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 Abr 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.

Peakyas126 mountains within 25 km
Bār Kūh7.2 kmKūh-e Ārām Khān2,035 m · 7.8 kmKūh-e Kamar9.0 kmKūh-e Afrātakhteh9.7 kmKūh-e Kotal Band12 kmKūh-e Gonbozī14 kmKūh-e Ākharān19 kmKūh-e Chālāb23 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.

Cloud forest - Shahroud - panoramio
Alireza Javaheri · CC BY 3.0
Cloud forest - ^ Ghalemuran view - panoramio
Alireza Javaheri · CC BY 3.0
Abr Jungle in Iran by Pouria Afkhami pixoos 02
Pixoos · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Abr Forest

Iran

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 59Species

Sisangan Forest Park

Iran · 290 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 61Species

See the guide

Lavizan Forest Park

Iran · 336 km

  • 32Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • 139Species

See the guide

Sorkheh Hesar National Park

Iran · 335 km

  • 25Forestyas Score
  • 1%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 21Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5960787) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species294 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.

The family

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