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Ghana Ghana arboretum

Aburi Botanical Gardens

Flowizm · CC BY 2.0

84% trees around it and 107 species recorded.

78Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km84%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded107
  • Altitude240 m

The forest around

84% 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 95%Shrubland 3%Grassland 2%Built-up 0%Trees 82%Shrubland 1%Grassland 6%Cropland 0%Built-up 10%Trees 89%Shrubland 1%Grassland 6%Built-up 3%Trees 69%Shrubland 9%Grassland 9%Cropland 0%Built-up 13%84%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km95%
  • 1–3 km82%
  • 3–6 km89%
  • 6–10 km69%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees82%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland6%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up10%

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

107 species recorded.

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

Broadleaf carpetgrass
Broadleaf carpetgrassAxonopus compressus2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Panicum brevifoliumPanicum brevifolium2 records
Setaria longisetaSetaria longiseta2 records
Naked crabgrassDigitaria nuda2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

78out of 100

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

  • 84%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 107Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 240 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

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

  1. Jan32°22°18 mm
  2. Feb33°24°38 mm
  3. Mar32°24°93 mm
  4. Apr31°24°115 mm
  5. May29°24°159 mm
  6. Jun28°23°182 mm
  7. Jul27°22°118 mm
  8. Aug28°21°68 mm
  9. Sep28°22°141 mm
  10. Oct29°23°158 mm
  11. Nov30°23°56 mm
  12. Dec32°23°18 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Aburi Botanical Gardens.

It was established in 1890 under the governorship of sir.W.Brandford Griffith.It was under the care of Mr.Willian crowther the Garden was a natural centre or cure chronie disease.

Aburi Botanical Gardens is an arboretum in Ghana, 240 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 84% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

107 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 0 fungi, 101 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Broadleaf carpetgrass, Panicum brevifolium and Setaria longiseta.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

Aburi Palms Ghana
Flowizm · CC BY 2.0

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.

Aburi Botanical Gardens 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmThe Strangler Ficus Tree
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 17places to stay within 10 kmOylander Hotel, ABG Guest House, Highlander Guest House and 14 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Aburi Botanical Gardens.

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.

Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Bereku13 kmAbrim15 kmPeprao16 kmObuam17 kmAjangote18 kmOpoku21 kmCherekecherete78 m · 24 kmNyanao25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Ghana Satellite Earth StationBortle 7 · 19 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Obosomase Waterfalls2.6 kmTsenku Waterfall7.6 kmKyenku water falls7.6 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.

Aburi garden 15
Lionel Scheepmans · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aburi garden 2
Lionel Scheepmans · CC BY-SA 4.0
An Old Helicopter At Aburi Gardens 01
Craig Sik · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Aburi Botanical Gardens

Ghana

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 107Species

Atewa Range

Ghana · 57 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 562Species

See the guide

Shai Hills Resource Reserve

Ghana · 28 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 36%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 506Species

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Forêt de Missahoé

Togo · 149 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 523Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4055198) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species843 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, Cascadyas

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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