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Ivory Coast Ivory Coast arboretum

Bingerville Botanical Garden

Adjoumani512 · CC BY 4.0

16% trees around it and 113 species recorded.

40Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km16%
  • wild within 10 km74%
  • species recorded113
  • Altitude104 m

The forest around

16% 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 29%Shrubland 0%Grassland 4%Built-up 66%Trees 14%Shrubland 1%Grassland 26%Wetland 1%Water 6%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 50%Trees 28%Shrubland 2%Grassland 26%Wetland 1%Water 16%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 27%Trees 35%Shrubland 1%Grassland 17%Wetland 0%Water 24%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 22%16%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km29%
  • 1–3 km14%
  • 3–6 km28%
  • 6–10 km35%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees14%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland26%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water6%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up50%

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

113 species recorded.

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

Lagos MahoganyVU
Lagos MahoganyKhaya ivorensis28 recordsPandries · CC BY-SA 4.0
Achiote
AchioteBixa orellana10 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Zombi pea
Zombi peaVigna vexillata6 recordsJayesh Patil from Mumbai, India · CC BY 2.0
Star apple
Star appleChrysophyllum cainito4 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Hans B.~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claim · Public domain
Mahua
MahuaMadhuca longifolia3 recordsNvvchar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Poison devil's-pepper
Poison devil's-pepperRauvolfia vomitoria3 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Rosarypea
RosarypeaAbrus precatorius3 recordsLen Worthington · CC BY-SA 2.0
Torpedo grass
Torpedo grassPanicum repens2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Berlinia confusaBerlinia confusa15 records
Dialium dinklageiDialium dinklagei10 records
Vahadenia cailleiVahadenia caillei7 records
Combretum platypterumCombretum platypterum6 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

40out of 100

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

  • 16%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 74%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 113Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 104 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in August.

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

  1. Jan32°23°26 mm
  2. Feb31°24°63 mm
  3. Mar30°25°130 mm
  4. Apr30°25°158 mm
  5. May29°24°201 mm
  6. Jun28°24°260 mm
  7. Jul27°22°98 mm
  8. Aug27°22°46 mm
  9. Sep28°22°99 mm
  10. Oct29°23°183 mm
  11. Nov29°24°110 mm
  12. Dec30°24°50 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bingerville Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden located in Ivory Coast

Bingerville Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Ivory Coast.

Seen from space, 16% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 74% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

113 species have been recorded around it: 55 plants, 0 fungi, 58 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Lagos Mahogany, Achiote and Zombi pea.

The best time to walk is in August.

Jardin botanique de Bingerville
Adjoumani512 · CC BY 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Cité Esthia (Aurore)campsite · 4.0 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Hôtel Bakouaplace to stay · 0.8 km · 154 within 10 km
  • Bingervillenearest town · 0.9 km in a straight line
  • Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport (ABJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at ABJ airport (Abidjan)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.

Bingerville 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 kmBuvette et Préau
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 kmRESIDENCE F. SIDI YAYA
  • 24car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmCité Esthia (Aurore)
  • 154places to stay within 10 kmHôtel Bakoua, Domicile Alain, Dior's house and 151 more
  • 18restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Bingerville 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.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lagune Adjin19 km² · 6.8 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.

Avenue Jeanne Aka Batlo (Bingerville)
LebigDZ · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rue Sika Siméon Odjone(Bingerville)
LebigDZ · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bingerville, à 15 kilomètres d'Abidjan, le 25 octobre 2015
Tatiana Mosso (VOA) · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Bingerville Botanical Garden

Ivory Coast

  • 40Forestyas Score
  • 16%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 113Species

Atewa Range

Ghana · 375 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 562Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3162386) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species779 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 atlasesLakeyas

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

The family

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