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Bogotá Botanical Garden

Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis · CC BY-SA 4.0

11% trees around it and 486 species recorded.

34Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km11%
  • wild within 10 km33%
  • species recorded486
  • Altitude2,557 m

The forest around

11% 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 25%Grassland 10%Cropland 0%Built-up 64%Trees 9%Grassland 9%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 80%Trees 6%Grassland 8%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 84%Trees 25%Grassland 17%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 55%11%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km25%
  • 1–3 km9%
  • 3–6 km6%
  • 6–10 km25%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees9%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up80%

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

486 species recorded.

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

Panama hat plant
Panama hat plantCarludovica palmata340 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Renealmia thyrsoidea
Renealmia thyrsoideaRenealmia thyrsoidea250 recordsyakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 2.0
Stromanthe jacquinii
Stromanthe jacquiniiStromanthe jacquinii50 recordsAlejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0
Persicaria capitata
Persicaria capitataPersicaria capitata34 recordsJJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mexican bush sage
Mexican bush sageSalvia leucantha27 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Black-eyed Susan vine
Black-eyed Susan vineThunbergia alata25 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Salvia rubescens
Salvia rubescensSalvia rubescens13 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Bolivian fuchsia
Bolivian fuchsiaFuchsia boliviana12 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
Salvia orthostachys
Salvia orthostachysSalvia orthostachys11 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nasturtium
NasturtiumTropaeolum majus10 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · Public domain
Yellow Trumpetbush
Yellow TrumpetbushTecoma stans10 recordsFilo gèn' · CC BY-SA 4.0
Horehound
HorehoundMarrubium vulgare8 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

34out of 100

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

  • 11%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 33%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 486Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 2,557 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.

  1. Jan24°14°44 mm
  2. Feb25°14°71 mm
  3. Mar24°15°132 mm
  4. Apr23°15°209 mm
  5. May23°14°207 mm
  6. Jun23°13°162 mm
  7. Jul23°13°134 mm
  8. Aug24°13°108 mm
  9. Sep24°13°103 mm
  10. Oct23°14°186 mm
  11. Nov23°14°165 mm
  12. Dec23°14°103 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bogotá Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden

Bogotá Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Colombia, 2,557 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 11% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 33% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

486 species have been recorded around it: 258 plants, 2 fungi, 226 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Panama hat plant, Renealmia thyrsoidea and Stromanthe jacquinii.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

Bogotá Botanical Garden aerial view
Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Fr 08:00-17:00; Sa-Su 09:00-17:00Official site
  • Casa de Don Victorcampsite · 9.1 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Bogotá Marriottplace to stay · 1.3 km · 596 within 10 km
  • Bogotánearest town · 6.8 km in a straight line
  • El Dorado International Airport (BOG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at BOG airport (Bogota)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.

Bogotá 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 kmCamino de Monserrate, Sendero Quebrada Las Delicias
  • 29named and notable trees within 6 kmCaucho Sabanero, Parqueadero bicicletas aulas ingenierìa, Palma de cera and 26 more
  • 6picnic sites within 4 kmPicnic 1 Parque Simón Bolívar, El Labrador and 4 more
  • 34shelters and huts within 6 kmQuiosco 3, Cabaña 12, Cabaña 11 and 31 more
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmEspejo del Agua, Great Viewpoint and 4 more
  • 8visitor centres within 6 kmCAU -Centro de Atención al Usuario, Agencia de Viojes y Turisma, Aviatur and 5 more
  • 239car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmCasa de Don Victor and 3 more
  • 596places to stay within 10 kmBogotá Marriott, Las Ferias, Las Ferias7 and 593 more
  • 631restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Bogotá 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.

Peakyas57 mountains within 25 km
Cerros de Suba2,700 m · 6.8 kmMonserrate3,152 m · 8.4 kmGuadalupe Hill3,260 m · 10 kmCerro La Conejera2,768 m · 12 kmAlto de La Teta17 kmAlto del Agua22 kmAlto de Peña Negra24 kmCerro de Guayacundo25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lago Club Los Lagartos0.2 km² · 4.6 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Planetarium of BogotáBortle 7 · 7.1 kmObservatorio Astronómico Nacional de ColombiaBortle 7 · 8.4 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Monserrate3,152 m · 8.5 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.

Bogotá, sendero en el Jardín Botánico
Felipe Restrepo Acosta · CC BY-SA 3.0
Estructura en el Jardín Botánico de Bogotá
Felipe Restrepo Acosta · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jardín Botanico José Celestino Mutis
Sebaxo93 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Bogotá Botanical Garden

Colombia

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 11%Trees
  • 33%Wild
  • 486Species

Jardín Botanico

Colombia · 173 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 268Species

See the guide

Botanical Garden of Medellín

Colombia · 241 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 494Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q979670) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species75,604 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here