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Botanical Garden of Medellín

Jorge Láscar · CC BY-SA 3.0

20% trees around it and 494 species recorded.

46Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km20%
  • wild within 10 km68%
  • species recorded494
  • Altitude1,471 m

The forest around

20% 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 19%Grassland 1%Water 2%Built-up 77%Trees 20%Grassland 3%Water 0%Built-up 76%Trees 32%Grassland 19%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Built-up 48%Trees 53%Grassland 28%Bare ground 0%Built-up 18%20%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km19%
  • 1–3 km20%
  • 3–6 km32%
  • 6–10 km53%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees20%
  • Grassland3%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up76%

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

494 species recorded.

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

Cannonball tree
Cannonball treeCouroupita guianensis15 recordsRanjithsiji · CC BY-SA 3.0
Stickpea
StickpeaCalliandra haematocephala12 recordsGreg Hume · CC BY-SA 3.0
Swiss Cheese plant
Swiss Cheese plantMonstera deliciosa11 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Peruvian peppertree
Peruvian peppertreeSchinus molle10 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
White leadtree
White leadtreeLeucaena leucocephala9 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Chinese Hibiscus
Chinese HibiscusHibiscus × rosa-sinensis9 recordsAndy / Andrew Fogg from near Cambridge, UK · CC BY 2.0
Weeping fig
Weeping figFicus benjamina9 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sour orange
Sour orangeCitrus × aurantium9 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Philodendron radiatum
Philodendron radiatumPhilodendron radiatum8 recordsjimmex · CC0
Garden croton
Garden crotonCodiaeum variegatum8 recordsLouise Wolff -- darina 23:22, 6 May 2005 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Beach sheoak
Beach sheoakCasuarina equisetifolia7 recordsEric Guinther · CC BY-SA 3.0
Queen's-wreath
Queen's-wreathPetrea volubilis7 recordsRolf Engstrand · 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.

46out of 100

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

  • 20%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 68%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 494Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,471 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to February.

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

  1. Jan20°12°116 mm
  2. Feb21°12°92 mm
  3. Mar21°13°138 mm
  4. Apr20°13°220 mm
  5. May20°14°243 mm
  6. Jun20°13°172 mm
  7. Jul20°13°177 mm
  8. Aug20°13°192 mm
  9. Sep20°13°193 mm
  10. Oct19°13°220 mm
  11. Nov19°13°205 mm
  12. Dec20°12°152 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 Medellín.

14-hectare botanical garden in Medellín, Colombia

Botanical Garden of Medellín is an arboretum in Colombia, 1,471 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 20% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 68% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

494 species have been recorded around it: 196 plants, 0 fungi, 288 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cannonball tree, Stickpea and Swiss Cheese plant.

The best time to walk is from December to February.

Orchidiarium - Medellin Botanical Gardens
Jorge Láscar · CC BY-SA 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.

Botanical Garden of Medellín 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmTrocha
  • 6named and notable trees within 6 kmMango, Huerta PBB, casa and 3 more
  • 12picnic sites within 4 km
  • 129shelters and huts within 6 kmBosque, Cabañas, Cabaña and 126 more
  • 44viewpoints within 5 kmMirador (Bajo) - Pinares de Oriente, Mirador - Pinares de Oriente, Mirador El Cubo and 41 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 177car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 kmParqueadero, Azacan SAS campamento Bello, Camping and 8 more
  • 430places to stay within 10 kmHotel Nutibara, Hotel Sauces del Estadio, Tryp and 427 more
  • 351restaurants 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 Medellín.

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.

Peakyas191 mountains within 25 km
Cerro El Volador82 m · 2.1 kmCerro Nutibara1,551 m · 4.2 kmCerro de Las Baldías12 kmAlto de Umbi13 kmAlto del Tablazo15 kmAlto Venteadero15 kmAlto Urquita21 kmAlto Simula21 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Planetarium of MedellínBortle 8 · 0.3 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Salto Chorrolato7.7 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.

Botanical Garden Medellin
Staticshakedown · CC BY-SA 3.0
Orquídea-Medellin-1
Edgar · CC BY-SA 2.0
Botanical Garden - panoramio (3)
Zack Knowles · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Botanical Garden of Medellín

Colombia

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

Jardín Botanico

Colombia · 196 km

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

See the guide

Bogotá Botanical Garden

Colombia · 241 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5926838) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species35,158 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, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

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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