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Guatemala Guatemala arboretum

Botanical Garden of Guatemala

Lobiolsn · CC BY-SA 4.0

18% trees around it and 215 species recorded.

34Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km18%
  • wild within 10 km52%
  • species recorded215
  • Altitude1,505 m

The forest around

18% 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 10%Grassland 1%Built-up 88%Trees 19%Grassland 2%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 78%Trees 39%Shrubland 0%Grassland 3%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 57%Trees 54%Shrubland 0%Grassland 6%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 38%18%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km10%
  • 1–3 km19%
  • 3–6 km39%
  • 6–10 km54%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees19%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland2%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up78%

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

215 species recorded.

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

Thin-leaf Pine
Thin-leaf PinePinus maximinoi11 recordstian2992 from Guatemala, Guatemala · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pepper
PepperCapsicum annuum7 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Caracus wigandia
Caracus wigandiaWigandia urens6 recordsBouba at French Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major6 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Sky Flower
Sky FlowerDuranta erecta5 recordsGowrivemban · CC0
Juglans olanchanaNT
Juglans olanchanaJuglans olanchana5 recordstreesftf · CC BY 2.0
Nut-grass
Nut-grassCyperus rotundus4 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Rickjpelleg assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 2.5
Field pumpkin
Field pumpkinCucurbita pepo4 recordsVarious · CC BY-SA 1.0
Gamochaeta pensylvanica
Gamochaeta pensylvanicaGamochaeta pensylvanica4 recordsAndrés González · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sieva bean
Sieva beanPhaseolus lunatus4 recordsChirocca77 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Oriental hawksbeard
Oriental hawksbeardYoungia japonica4 recordsSphl · CC BY-SA 3.0
Senecio tamoides
Senecio tamoidesSenecio tamoides3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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).

  • 18%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 52%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 215Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,505 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in December.

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

  1. Jan26°13°5 mm
  2. Feb28°14°7 mm
  3. Mar30°15°12 mm
  4. Apr30°16°41 mm
  5. May28°18°163 mm
  6. Jun25°18°225 mm
  7. Jul26°17°172 mm
  8. Aug25°17°223 mm
  9. Sep24°17°243 mm
  10. Oct24°16°191 mm
  11. Nov24°14°43 mm
  12. Dec24°13°8 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 Guatemala.

Botanical garden in Guatemala City

Botanical Garden of Guatemala is an arboretum in Guatemala, 1,505 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 18% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 52% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

215 species have been recorded around it: 63 plants, 0 fungi, 151 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Thin-leaf Pine, Pepper and Caracus wigandia.

The best time to walk is in December.

Nombre cientifico
Lobiolsn · CC BY-SA 4.0

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 Garden of Guatemala 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmParque Hacienda Real
  • 14picnic sites within 4 km
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 kmVet Happy puppy
  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 322car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmCayalá
  • 212places to stay within 10 kmHotel Residencia del Sol, Hotel San Carlos, Apartamentos Quality S.A. and 209 more
  • 478restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Botanical Garden of Guatemala.

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.

Peakyas22 mountains within 25 km
Cerro Vivo10 kmCerro Ladino13 kmCerro de Las Limas15 kmCerro La Cerra15 kmCerro de Tomastepeque18 kmCerro La Mariposa20 kmCerro Tzuluj20 kmCerro La Piedrona25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Viento Fresco2.2 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.

IMG-20180222-WA0000
Lobiolsn · CC BY-SA 4.0
Streets in zone 4 of Guatemala City
Rud1132 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Buildings in zone 4 of Guatemala City
Rudy Cano · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Botanical Garden of Guatemala

Guatemala

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 18%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 215Species

La Laguna Botanical Garden

El Salvador · 172 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 1,158Species

See the guide

Lacandon Jungle

Mexico · 217 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Belize Botanic Gardens

Belize · 315 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 397Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5926823) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species11,114 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, Cascadyas

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

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