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Portugal Portugal arboretum

Botanical Garden of Faial

José Luís Ávila Silveira/Pedro Noronha e Costa · Public domain

29% trees around it and 573 species recorded.

63Forestyas Score

ArboretumWild

  • trees within 3 km29%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded573
  • Altitude113 m

The forest around

29% 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 37%Grassland 57%Cropland 1%Built-up 5%Trees 28%Grassland 53%Water 10%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 8%Trees 16%Grassland 34%Water 50%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%Trees 12%Grassland 18%Water 69%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%29%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km37%
  • 1–3 km28%
  • 3–6 km16%
  • 6–10 km12%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees28%
  • Grassland53%
  • Water10%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up8%

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

573 species recorded.

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

Wild Carrot
Wild CarrotDaucus carota59 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Indian goosegrass
Indian goosegrassEleusine indica56 recordsTauʻolunga · CC BY-SA 3.0
Latin American fleabane
Latin American fleabaneErigeron karvinskianus54 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Small-leaf spiderwort
Small-leaf spiderwortTradescantia fluminensis51 recordsEnrique Dans from Madrid, Spain · CC BY 2.0
Fourleaf manyseed
Fourleaf manyseedPolycarpon tetraphyllum50 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
SugiNT
SugiCryptomeria japonica50 recordsYosemite · CC BY-SA 3.0
Elder
ElderSambucus nigra49 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cerastium holosteoides
Cerastium holosteoidesCerastium holosteoides49 recordsCarl Axel Magnus Lindman · Public domain
Earleaf nightshade
Earleaf nightshadeSolanum mauritianum48 recordsPeter Greenwell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rooting chainfernVU
Rooting chainfernWoodwardia radicans48 recordsIxitixel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Persicaria capitata
Persicaria capitataPersicaria capitata47 recordsJJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Apple mint
Apple mintMentha suaveolens46 recordsZooFari · 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.

63out of 100

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

  • 29%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 573Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 113 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in November.

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

  1. Jan17°15°87 mm
  2. Feb16°14°84 mm
  3. Mar16°14°85 mm
  4. Apr16°15°66 mm
  5. May18°16°66 mm
  6. Jun20°18°46 mm
  7. Jul22°21°29 mm
  8. Aug24°22°38 mm
  9. Sep23°21°70 mm
  10. Oct21°19°92 mm
  11. Nov19°17°75 mm
  12. Dec17°16°113 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Botanical Garden of Faial.

Garden

Botanical Garden of Faial is an arboretum in Portugal.

Seen from space, 29% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

573 species have been recorded around it: 485 plants, 18 fungi, 69 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Wild Carrot, Indian goosegrass and Latin American fleabane.

The best time to walk is from May to June and in November.

Jardim Botânico do Faial, 3 concelho da Horta, ilha do Faial, Açores, Portugal
José Luís Ávila Silveira/Pedro Noronha e Costa · Public domain

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 Garden of Faial 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmPR07FAI Caminhos Velhos, GR01FAI Faial Costa a Costa, PRC08FAI Entre Montes and 1 more
  • 30named and notable trees within 6 kmDragoeiro and 29 more
  • 44picnic sites within 4 km
  • 73shelters and huts within 6 kmLargo Duque de Ávila e Bolama, Pavilhão, Grelhador and 70 more
  • 27viewpoints within 5 kmMiradouro da Vista Alegre, Miradouro do Salto da Ribeira, Miradouro do Ribeiro Seco and 24 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmPosto de Turismo Faial - Terminal Marítimo, Casa da Baía da Horta
  • 163car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmBearsu Nature Almoxarife, Azul Singular, Parque de campismo da Boca da Ribeira and 3 more
  • 208places to stay within 10 kmMountain View, Home 4 You, In Faial, Alojamento Laureana and 205 more
  • 50restaurants 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 Botanical Garden of Faial.

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.

Peakyas38 mountains within 25 km
Monte da Guia3.7 kmTambroso497 m · 5.5 kmCabeço Gordo1,043 m · 7.5 kmCabeço da Fonte14 kmCabeço do Canto16 kmCapelinhos143 m · volcano · 17 kmSelado18 kmMount Pico2,351 m · volcano · 23 km
Islandyasthe island
Faial Island173 km²
Coastya3 beaches within 10 km
Praia do Almoxarife2.7 kmPraia Do Porto Pim3.1 kmCaldeira do Inferno3.8 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 km
TambrosoBortle 2 · 5.6 kmFaial IslandBortle 2 · 6.2 kmCabeço GordoBortle 2 · 7.6 kmCapelinhosBortle 1 · 18 kmMount PicoBortle 1 · 23 kmPico IslandBortle 1 · 25 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Tambroso497 m · 5.6 kmCabeço Gordo1,043 m · 7.6 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Fajã dos Cubres149 species · 2.1 kmCaldeira e Capelinhos - Ilha do Faial55 species · 10 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Gruta das Torres13 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.

FAI HOR Fla BotanicalGarden Trail
Ruben JC Furtado · CC BY-SA 3.0
FAI HOR Fla BotanicalGarden
Ruben JC Furtado · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jardim Botânico do Faial, 4 concelho da Horta, ilha do Faial, Açores, Portugal
José Luís Ávila Silveira/Pedro Noronha e Costa · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Botanical Garden of Faial

Portugal

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 29%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 573Species

Parque Terra Nostra

Portugal · 303 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 351Species

See the guide

Mata Jardim José do Canto

Portugal · 303 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 209Species

See the guide

Jardim António Borges

Portugal · 274 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 416Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4948437) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species12,987 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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