India forest
Behali Reserved Forest
Dipankar Borah · CC0
98% trees around it and 123 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km98%
- wild within 10 km77%
- species recorded123
- Altitude126 m
The forest around
98% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km100%
- 1–3 km98%
- 3–6 km82%
- 6–10 km60%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees98%
- Shrubland0%
- Grassland0%
- Water0%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland2%
- 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
123 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 98%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 77%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 123Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 126 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from December to January.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan9°12 mm
- Feb11°27 mm
- Mar14°59 mm
- Apr18°185 mm
- May21°271 mm
- Jun23°358 mm
- Jul24°399 mm
- Aug24°332 mm
- Sep22°263 mm
- Oct19°108 mm
- Nov14°21 mm
- Dec11°9 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Behali Reserved Forest.
Natural area under government of India
Behali Reserved Forest is a forest in India.
Seen from space, 98% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 77% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
123 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 0 fungi, 122 birds and 0 mammals.
The best time to walk is from December to January.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Itanagar Donyi Polo Hollongi Airport (HGI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 33 km in a straight lineCar hire at CCU airport (Kolkata)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
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.
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.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Behali Reserved Forest
India
- 71Forestyas Score
- 98%Trees
- 77%Wild
- 123Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q107674396) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 777 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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