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Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza

Woodlouse from Brighton, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0

5% trees around it and 511 species recorded.

31Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km5%
  • wild within 10 km22%
  • species recorded511
  • Altitude1,268 m

The forest around

5% 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 13%Shrubland 1%Grassland 14%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 68%Trees 4%Shrubland 1%Grassland 6%Water 4%Bare ground 1%Cropland 17%Built-up 67%Trees 2%Shrubland 1%Grassland 6%Water 3%Bare ground 2%Cropland 42%Built-up 44%Trees 2%Shrubland 1%Grassland 21%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 56%Built-up 18%5%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km13%
  • 1–3 km4%
  • 3–6 km2%
  • 6–10 km2%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees4%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water4%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland17%
  • Built-up67%

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

511 species recorded.

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

Bambarra groundnut
Bambarra groundnutVigna subterranea47 recordsJoseph Pohl · Public domain
Jaraguagrass
JaraguagrassHyparrhenia rufa23 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Peruvian groundcherry
Peruvian groundcherryPhysalis peruviana22 recordsIn Transit · CC BY 4.0
Kidney bean
Kidney beanPhaseolus vulgaris22 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Field dodder
Field dodderCuscuta campestris21 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 11:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hyacinthbean
HyacinthbeanLablab purpureus20 recordsTaken by Fanghong · CC BY-SA 3.0
Crassocephalum rubens
Crassocephalum rubensCrassocephalum rubens20 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Oldenlandia herbacea
Oldenlandia herbaceaOldenlandia herbacea19 recordsDinesh Valke from Thane, India · CC BY-SA 2.0
African Eggplant
African EggplantSolanum anguivi15 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Tall morning-glory
Tall morning-gloryIpomoea purpurea14 recordsOriginal uploader was PiccoloNamek at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blackeyed pea
Blackeyed peaVigna unguiculata14 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
American black nightshade
American black nightshadeSolanum americanum13 recordsJuan Carlos Fonseca Mata · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

31out of 100

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

  • 5%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 22%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 511Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,268 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from August to September.

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

  1. Jan23°15°475 mm
  2. Feb23°15°379 mm
  3. Mar23°15°304 mm
  4. Apr22°13°159 mm
  5. May20°11°86 mm
  6. Jun17°9°84 mm
  7. Jul17°8°85 mm
  8. Aug18°8°58 mm
  9. Sep20°9°46 mm
  10. Oct23°12°96 mm
  11. Nov24°14°222 mm
  12. Dec24°15°388 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza.

Zoological and botanical garden in the neighbourhood of Tsimbazaza in Antananarivo, Madagascar

Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza is an arboretum in Madagascar, 1,268 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 5% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 22% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

511 species have been recorded around it: 430 plants, 4 fungi, 74 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bambarra groundnut, Jaraguagrass and Peruvian groundcherry.

The best time to walk is from August to September.

Taro - Tsimbazaza Zoo
Woodlouse from Brighton, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza 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

  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 28shelters and huts within 6 kmF2R1 and 27 more
  • 16viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmOffice Régional du Tourisme d'Antananarivo, Office Régional du Tourisme d'Analamanga
  • 84car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmBloc 09, Ankouna and 2 more
  • 263places to stay within 10 kmRelais des Pistards, Le Manoir, Rova Hôtel and 260 more
  • 285restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees 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 Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza.

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.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Ilafy Hill9.4 kmAmbohitsileo16 kmAmbohimanga1,468 m · 19 kmAngavokely22 kmAmbohimanoa24 km
Islandyasthe island
Madagascar587,713 km²

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

JardimBotanicoCuritiba.plantasdecuritiba
KikoCorreia · CC BY-SA 2.5 br
Ankoay dans le parc tsimbazaza
Hariniaina14 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Crocodile exhibit - Tsimbazaza Zoo
Woodlouse from Brighton, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7849674) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species6,180 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

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

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