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Beli Oak

Kiril Simeonovski · CC BY-SA 4.0

20% trees around it and 1 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km20%
  • wild within 10 km72%
  • species recorded1
  • Altitude574 m

The forest around

20% 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 9%Grassland 84%Cropland 5%Built-up 2%Trees 21%Grassland 71%Cropland 6%Built-up 1%Trees 32%Grassland 41%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 20%Built-up 7%Trees 37%Grassland 31%Bare ground 0%Cropland 30%Built-up 2%20%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km9%
  • 1–3 km21%
  • 3–6 km32%
  • 6–10 km37%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees21%
  • Grassland71%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland6%
  • Built-up1%

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

1 species recorded.

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

House mouseMus musculus2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

21out of 100

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

  • 20%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 72%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 574 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan2°-6°48 mm
  2. Feb4°-4°41 mm
  3. Mar9°-1°54 mm
  4. Apr14°3°58 mm
  5. May19°8°68 mm
  6. Jun24°12°73 mm
  7. Jul28°15°48 mm
  8. Aug29°15°46 mm
  9. Sep23°10°49 mm
  10. Oct16°5°58 mm
  11. Nov10°1°49 mm
  12. Dec4°-4°53 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Beli Oak.

Beli Oak is a notable tree in North Macedonia, 574 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 20% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 72% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

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

The best time to walk is in May.

Стар даб во Белскиот манастир 2
Kiril Simeonovski · 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.

Beli Oak 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmSammiana I5
  • 2picnic sites within 4 kmКај Дабо
  • 11shelters and huts within 6 kmГард and 10 more
  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 9car parks within 3 km
  • 58campsites within 10 km
  • 7places to stay within 10 kmЛедер, Hotel Amor, Еуро Хотел Градче and 4 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres 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 Beli Oak.

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.

Peakyas33 mountains within 25 km
Turtel1,603 m · 17 kmLisec1,754 m · 21 kmČupino Brdo1,725 m · 21 kmCarev Vrv2,085 m · 22 kmPlačkovica1,754 m · 23 kmBandera1,824 m · 23 kmBel Kamen1,707 m · 24 kmKalin Kamen1,884 m · 25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Gratče Waterfall12 m · 4.6 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.

Стар даб во Белскиот манастир
Kiril Simeonovski · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Beli Oak

North Macedonia

  • 21Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 1Species

Baikushev's pine

Bulgaria · 89 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 245Species

See the guide

Kedrinos Lofos

Greece · 156 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 585Species

See the guide

Rrapi i Marashit

Kosovo · 138 km

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 81Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q105549511) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13 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, Cascadyas

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

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