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Bogor Botanical Gardens

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24% trees around it and 1,131 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km24%
  • wild within 10 km56%
  • species recorded1,131
  • Altitude270 m

The forest around

24% 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 34%Grassland 5%Cropland 0%Built-up 61%Trees 22%Grassland 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 75%Trees 38%Grassland 5%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 53%Trees 58%Grassland 7%Bare ground 0%Cropland 5%Built-up 30%24%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km34%
  • 1–3 km22%
  • 3–6 km38%
  • 6–10 km58%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees22%
  • Grassland1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up75%

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

1,131 species recorded.

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

Antidesma montanum
Antidesma montanumAntidesma montanum51 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red Sandalwood
Red SandalwoodPterocarpus indicus50 recordsFrancisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain
CinnamonVU
CinnamonCinnamomum verum35 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Leea indica
Leea indicaLeea indica34 recordsFrancisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain
Garden croton
Garden crotonCodiaeum variegatum32 recordsLouise Wolff -- darina 23:22, 6 May 2005 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vatica paucifloraVU
Vatica paucifloraVatica pauciflora30 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Dendrophthoe pentandra
Dendrophthoe pentandraDendrophthoe pentandra29 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY-SA 4.0
Acalypha wilkesiana
Acalypha wilkesianaAcalypha wilkesiana26 recordsArun nagarajan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ricefield flatsedge
Ricefield flatsedgeCyperus iria21 recordsMargaretRDonald · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cananga odorata
Cananga odorataCananga odorata21 recordsUser:B.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Soybean
SoybeanGlycine max20 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Gnetum leptostachyumGnetum leptostachyum39 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

45out of 100

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

  • 24%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 56%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,131Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 270 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

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

  1. Jan27°21°337 mm
  2. Feb27°22°373 mm
  3. Mar28°22°263 mm
  4. Apr28°22°219 mm
  5. May28°22°151 mm
  6. Jun28°21°92 mm
  7. Jul28°20°83 mm
  8. Aug29°20°53 mm
  9. Sep30°20°82 mm
  10. Oct30°21°152 mm
  11. Nov29°22°218 mm
  12. Dec28°22°247 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bogor Botanical Gardens.

Botanical garden in Bogor, Indonesia

Bogor Botanical Gardens is an arboretum in Indonesia, 270 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 24% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 56% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,131 species have been recorded around it: 982 plants, 21 fungi, 123 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Antidesma montanum, Red Sandalwood and Cinnamon.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

Botanischer Garten in Bogor
Talaborn · Public domain

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Perkemahan Gadog Boemi Kaliandracampsite · 9.5 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Wisma Firman Pensioneplace to stay · 0.7 km · 123 within 10 km
  • Bogornearest town · 1.2 km in a straight line
  • Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport (HLP)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 38 km in a straight lineCar hire in JakartaDiscover 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.

Bogor Botanical 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

  • 32named and notable trees within 6 kmPapaya, Guava Tree, Bamboo and 29 more
  • 7shelters and huts within 6 kmGazebo Taman Kota Bogor and 6 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmSpot Fotografi Kereta Api, Masjid Baitussholihin
  • 208car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmPerkemahan Gadog Boemi Kaliandra, Bumi Perkemahan Sukamantri, VILLA SEMAK DAUN BOGOR
  • 123places to stay within 10 kmWisma Firman Pensione, Puri Bali Homestay, Kidu's Guest House and 120 more
  • 825restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Bogor Botanical 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.

Peakyas102 mountains within 25 km
Gunung Pancar12 kmMount Salak2,211 m · volcano · 15 kmPerbakti-Gagak1,699 m · volcano · 20 kmGunung Perbakti1,699 m · volcano · 21 kmGunung Peyek88 m · 22 kmKiaraberes-Gagak1,511 m · volcano · 22 kmMount Nyungcung23 kmMountain Munara25 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mount Salak2,211 m · 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Ciliwung River97 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.

Bogor kebun raya
Hullie at Dutch Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bogor Botanical Gardens Java42
Arabsalam · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bogor Botanical Gardens Java46
Arabsalam · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Bogor Botanical Gardens

Indonesia

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 1,131Species

Kebun Raya Cibodas

Indonesia · 28 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • 584Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1123665) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species16,231 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, Viewyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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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