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Acarlar Floodplain Forest

Kabacaly · CC BY-SA 4.0

48% trees around it and 40 species recorded.

55Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km48%
  • wild within 10 km92%
  • species recorded40

The forest around

48% 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 79%Grassland 8%Wetland 6%Cropland 7%Trees 44%Grassland 29%Wetland 7%Water 0%Bare ground 8%Cropland 11%Built-up 0%Trees 39%Grassland 16%Wetland 5%Water 26%Bare ground 5%Cropland 8%Built-up 1%Trees 41%Grassland 12%Wetland 0%Water 36%Bare ground 2%Cropland 7%Built-up 1%48%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km79%
  • 1–3 km44%
  • 3–6 km39%
  • 6–10 km41%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees44%
  • Grassland29%
  • Wetland7%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground8%
  • 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

40 species recorded.

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

Jeruselem thorn
Jeruselem thornPaliurus spina-christi2 recordsFritz Geller-Grimm · CC BY-SA 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

55out of 100

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

  • 48%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 92%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 40Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and in October.

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

  1. Jan8°2°86 mm
  2. Feb10°2°66 mm
  3. Mar13°4°65 mm
  4. Apr17°7°47 mm
  5. May21°12°50 mm
  6. Jun26°17°61 mm
  7. Jul28°19°33 mm
  8. Aug28°20°36 mm
  9. Sep25°16°54 mm
  10. Oct20°12°70 mm
  11. Nov15°8°64 mm
  12. Dec10°4°92 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Acarlar Floodplain Forest.

Floodplain forest in Kaynarca, Sakarya, Turkey

Acarlar Floodplain Forest is a forest in Turkey.

Seen from space, 48% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 92% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

40 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 0 fungi, 39 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from April to May and in October.

Acarlar longozu temmuz2016
Kabacaly · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Acarlar Floodplain 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 Acarlar Floodplain 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.

    Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
    Beşikli Hill8.8 kmTahirağa Hill11 kmMount Potoğlu11 kmMount Oflak20 kmDemirli Dağı23 kmBaba Dağı24 km
    Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
    Akgöl3.0 km² · 12 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.

    Acarlar Longozu 20150531 Nevit
    Nevit Dilmen ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
    Acarlar longozu 9484
    Nevit Dilmen ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
    Acarlar Longozu 2
    Hildeuz1 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q6074850) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species170 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, Lakeyas

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

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