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Andromeda Botanic Gardens

Postdlf · CC BY-SA 3.0

43% trees around it and 54 species recorded.

57Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km43%
  • wild within 10 km92%
  • species recorded54
  • Altitude91 m

The forest around

43% 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 76%Grassland 5%Water 17%Built-up 3%Trees 38%Grassland 13%Water 42%Cropland 4%Built-up 3%Trees 32%Grassland 18%Water 43%Cropland 3%Built-up 3%Trees 28%Grassland 19%Water 43%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 5%43%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km76%
  • 1–3 km38%
  • 3–6 km32%
  • 6–10 km28%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees38%
  • Grassland13%
  • Water42%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up3%

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

54 species recorded.

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

Rotten Cheesefruit
Rotten CheesefruitMorinda citrifolia6 recordsWilfredor · CC0
Euphorbia tithymaloides
Euphorbia tithymaloidesEuphorbia tithymaloides4 recordsTauʻolunga · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinese violet
Chinese violetAsystasia gangetica4 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Seagrape
SeagrapeCoccoloba uvifera3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Bahama nightshade
Bahama nightshadeSolanum bahamense3 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bay bean
Bay beanCanavalia rosea3 recordsIanaré Sévi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Basketgrass
BasketgrassOplismenus hirtellus2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Coinvine
CoinvineDalbergia ecastaphyllum2 recordsPancrat · CC BY-SA 3.0
Breadfruit
BreadfruitArtocarpus altilis2 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Phlogacanthus turgidus
Phlogacanthus turgidusPhlogacanthus turgidus2 recordsPatrice78500 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bengal clock vine
Bengal clock vineThunbergia grandiflora2 recordsFrancisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain
CoconutCocos nucifera3 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

57out of 100

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

  • 43%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 92%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 54Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 91 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to March.

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

  1. Jan27°26°34 mm
  2. Feb27°26°19 mm
  3. Mar27°26°19 mm
  4. Apr28°26°28 mm
  5. May28°27°52 mm
  6. Jun28°27°72 mm
  7. Jul28°27°74 mm
  8. Aug29°28°95 mm
  9. Sep29°28°98 mm
  10. Oct29°28°132 mm
  11. Nov28°27°107 mm
  12. Dec28°27°49 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Andromeda Botanic Gardens.

Botanical garden in St Joseph, Barbados

Andromeda Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in Barbados.

Seen from space, 43% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 92% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

54 species have been recorded around it: 23 plants, 1 fungi, 30 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rotten Cheesefruit, Euphorbia tithymaloides and Chinese violet.

The best time to walk is from January to March.

Andromeda Botanical Gardens 04
Postdlf · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Andromeda Botanic 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

  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmHackletons Cliff, Franz Phillips Memorial Picture Hole and 2 more
  • 10car parks within 3 km
  • 22places to stay within 10 kmAtlantis Hotel, Round House Inn, Clifton Hall Great House and 19 more
  • 10restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 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 Andromeda Botanic 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
Hackletons Cliff279 m · 1.0 kmChalky Mount220 m · 3.7 kmCongor Rocks104 m · 4.6 kmMount Hillaby340 m · 7.0 kmPico Teneriffe100 m · 10 kmFarley Hill232 m · 10 kmChrist Church Ridge87 m · 14 kmCowpen Rock41 m · 17 km
Islandyasthe island
Barbados439 km²
Coastya6 beaches within 10 km
Lakes Beach4.6 kmWalkers Beach7.0 kmGreenpond8.3 kmCummins Hole8.4 kmMorgan Lewis Beach8.5 kmThe Chase9.1 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mount Hillaby340 m · 7.1 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary134 species · 16 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Animal Flower Cave18 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.

Andromeda Botanical Gardens 03
Postdlf · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Andromeda Botanic Gardens

Barbados

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 43%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 54Species

St. Lucia Botanical Gardens

Saint Lucia · 180 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 91Species

See the guide

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · 186 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 104Species

See the guide

Sir Eric Matthew Gairy Botanical Gardens

Grenada · 274 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 59%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 101Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2169130) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,107 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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