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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines arboretum

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent

giggel · CC BY 3.0

56% trees around it and 104 species recorded.

68Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km56%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded104
  • Altitude168 m

The forest around

56% 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 71%Grassland 1%Water 0%Built-up 28%Trees 54%Grassland 2%Water 32%Built-up 13%Trees 49%Grassland 2%Water 46%Built-up 4%Trees 38%Grassland 2%Water 58%Built-up 2%56%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km71%
  • 1–3 km54%
  • 3–6 km49%
  • 6–10 km38%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees54%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water32%
  • Built-up13%

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

104 species recorded.

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

Pigeonberry
PigeonberryHirtella triandra5 recordsInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica - INMA · CC BY-SA 4.0
Smooth johnnyberry
Smooth johnnyberryMiconia laevigata4 recordsEdwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819; Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner · No restrictions
Arivela viscosa
Arivela viscosaArivela viscosa4 recordsJeevan Jose, Kerala, India · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cannonball tree
Cannonball treeCouroupita guianensis3 recordsRanjithsiji · CC BY-SA 3.0
Higuillo
HiguilloPiper dilatatum3 recordsVojtěch Zavadil · Public domain
Mango
MangoMangifera indica3 recordsWalter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) del. et lith. Description by John Smith (1798 - 1888) · Public domain
Antamul
AntamulVincetoxicum indicum2 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wild guave
Wild guaveGuettarda scabra2 recordsHomer Edward Price · CC BY 2.0
White leadtree
White leadtreeLeucaena leucocephala2 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Oriental hawksbeard
Oriental hawksbeardYoungia japonica2 recordsSphl · CC BY-SA 3.0
Myrcianthes fragransMyrcianthes fragrans7 records
Black mampooGuapira fragrans6 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

68out of 100

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

  • 56%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 104Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 168 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to April.

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

  1. Jan27°26°27 mm
  2. Feb27°26°15 mm
  3. Mar27°26°20 mm
  4. Apr28°26°21 mm
  5. May28°27°41 mm
  6. Jun28°27°68 mm
  7. Jul28°27°74 mm
  8. Aug29°28°88 mm
  9. Sep29°28°88 mm
  10. Oct29°28°107 mm
  11. Nov28°27°89 mm
  12. Dec28°27°43 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent.

Botanic Gardens of Kingstown, St. Vincent

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent is an arboretum in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Seen from space, 56% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

104 species have been recorded around it: 19 plants, 1 fungi, 83 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Pigeonberry, Smooth johnnyberry and Arivela viscosa.

The best time to walk is from January to April.

St. Vincent, Karibik - Botanical Garden of Kingstown - panoramio
giggel · CC BY 3.0

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.

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent 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

  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 26car parks within 3 km
  • 29places to stay within 10 kmHigh Field Guesthouse, Fairview Gesthouse, Royal Bliss Apartment Suites and 26 more
  • 52restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Botanic Gardens St. Vincent.

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.

Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Mount Saint Andrew2.6 kmPetit Bonhomme4.8 kmGrand Bonhomme973 m · 7.4 kmKukunjare13 kmMount Brisbane, St Vincent797 m · 14 kmRichmond Peak1,074 m · 14 kmLa Soufrière1,220 m · volcano · 19 km
Islandyasthe island
Saint Vincent345 km²
Coastya5 beaches within 10 km
Buccament Bay4.6 kmVilla Beach4.9 kmLagoon6.3 kmBrighton Beach8.2 kmStubbs Bay8.8 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Byahaut Bat Cave3.9 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.

Botanic Gardens - Harvard University - 01
Daderot · CC0
Botanic Gardens - Harvard University - DSC01420
Daderot · CC0
Botanic Gardens 1
Bostonian13 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 104Species

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  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 91Species

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  • 97%Wild
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  • 57Forestyas Score
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  • 92%Wild
  • 54Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4948422) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,721 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, Coastya, Cavernyas

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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