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Baguio Botanical Garden

Ralff Nestor Nacor · CC BY-SA 4.0

66% trees around it and 110 species recorded.

70Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km66%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded110
  • Altitude1,450 m

The forest around

66% 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 64%Grassland 7%Built-up 29%Trees 66%Grassland 2%Built-up 32%Trees 72%Grassland 8%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 18%Trees 86%Grassland 11%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 3%66%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km64%
  • 1–3 km66%
  • 3–6 km72%
  • 6–10 km86%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees66%
  • Grassland2%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up32%

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

110 species recorded.

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

Scutellaria javanica
Scutellaria javanicaScutellaria javanica5 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Podocarpus macrocarpus
Podocarpus macrocarpusPodocarpus macrocarpus4 recordsNasserHalaweh · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chinese creepingfern
Chinese creepingfernOdontosoria chinensis3 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Branched scouringrush
Branched scouringrushEquisetum ramosissimum3 recordsPetr Filippov · CC BY-SA 3.0
Christella parasitica
Christella parasiticaChristella parasitica3 recordsForest and Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0 us
Japanese Climbing Fern
Japanese Climbing FernLygodium japonicum2 recordsharum.koh from Kobe city, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mile a minute vine
Mile a minute vineIpomoea cairica2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Spadeleaf
SpadeleafCentella asiatica2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Bosmania membranaceaBosmania membranacea7 records
Pogostemon velatusPogostemon velatus5 records
Plesioneuron ligulatumPlesioneuron ligulatum4 records
Pinanga philippinensisPinanga philippinensis3 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

70out of 100

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

  • 66%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 110Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,450 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February.

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

  1. Jan25°16°34 mm
  2. Feb26°16°30 mm
  3. Mar28°18°54 mm
  4. Apr30°20°78 mm
  5. May29°21°273 mm
  6. Jun27°21°384 mm
  7. Jul26°21°585 mm
  8. Aug26°21°718 mm
  9. Sep26°20°433 mm
  10. Oct27°20°300 mm
  11. Nov26°19°123 mm
  12. Dec26°18°78 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Baguio Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Baguio, Philippines

Baguio Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Philippines, 1,450 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 66% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

110 species have been recorded around it: 45 plants, 3 fungi, 61 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Scutellaria javanica, Podocarpus macrocarpus and Chinese creepingfern.

The best time to walk is from January to February.

Baguio Botanical Garden, March 2023
Ralff Nestor Nacor · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Baguio Botanical GardenGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Baguio Botanical GardenBooking.comSee prices Car hire at CRK airport (Mabalacat)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Baguio Botanical Garden 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmCordillera Great Traverse, Forest Trail
  • 13picnic sites within 4 kmPicnic Ground and 12 more
  • 242shelters and huts within 6 kmMine's View Park View Deck, Prayer House of Charity, Prayer House of Faith and 239 more
  • 19viewpoints within 5 kmMine's View Park View Deck, Good Shepherd Convent View Deck, SM City Baguio Balcony and 16 more
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Info Center, Visitor Information Center, Tourist Information and Assistance Center
  • 242car parks within 3 km
  • 12campsites within 10 kmCarantes Ancestral Forest, Unplug ArtHub Eco Camp, W Corral Camp Site and Recreation Center and 9 more
  • 417places to stay within 10 kmFairways and Greens Bed & Breakfast, Lapid Transient House, Mines View Park Hotel and 414 more
  • 616restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Baguio Botanical Garden.

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.

Peakyas43 mountains within 25 km
Mount Mirador3.2 kmMount Cabuyao2,025 m · 9.5 kmMount Santo Tomas2,260 m · 10 kmMount Umkalang11 kmMount Lusen17 kmMount Agad-Agad19 kmMount Bana21 kmKoros Widi Hill24 km
Islandyasthe island
Luzon109,965 km²

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

BAGUIO BOTANICAL GARDEN
Gelomaics photography · CC BY-SA 4.0
2025-01-03 - A Buddhist statue in the Baguio Botanical Garden
EyeTrick · CC BY 4.0
2025-01-03 - The Baguio Botanical Garden at night
EyeTrick · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Baguio Botanical Garden

Philippines

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 110Species

Pantabangan–Carranglan Watershed Forest Reserve

Philippines · 86 km

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 2Species

See the guide

Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden

Philippines · 210 km

  • 22Forestyas Score
  • 5%Trees
  • 46%Wild
  • 62Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q118152209) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,507 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

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

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