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Venezuela Venezuela arboretum

Botanical Garden of Mérida

Ramses Hatem · CC BY-SA 3.0

64% trees around it and 178 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km64%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded178
  • Altitude1,803 m

The forest around

64% 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 61%Shrubland 1%Grassland 7%Built-up 31%Trees 64%Shrubland 2%Grassland 21%Built-up 13%Trees 77%Shrubland 0%Grassland 14%Built-up 9%Trees 71%Shrubland 1%Grassland 24%Bare ground 0%Built-up 4%64%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km61%
  • 1–3 km64%
  • 3–6 km77%
  • 6–10 km71%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees64%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland21%
  • 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

178 species recorded.

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

Pseudechinolaena polystachya
Pseudechinolaena polystachyaPseudechinolaena polystachya3 recordsInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica - INMA · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bejaria aestuans
Bejaria aestuansBejaria aestuans2 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Heartleaf madeiravine
Heartleaf madeiravineAnredera cordifolia2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Toxicodendron striatum
Toxicodendron striatumToxicodendron striatum2 recordsFredyrivera · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tree marigold
Tree marigoldTithonia diversifolia2 recordsThierry Caro · Public domain
Glossoloma ichthyodermaGlossoloma ichthyoderma2 records
Miconia theizansMiconia theizans2 records
Gaultheria buxifoliaGaultheria buxifolia2 records
Myrcianthes fragransMyrcianthes fragrans2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 64%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 178Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,803 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. Jan22°12°30 mm
  2. Feb23°12°34 mm
  3. Mar23°13°72 mm
  4. Apr22°14°142 mm
  5. May22°14°163 mm
  6. Jun21°13°136 mm
  7. Jul21°13°119 mm
  8. Aug22°13°115 mm
  9. Sep22°13°135 mm
  10. Oct21°14°156 mm
  11. Nov21°14°133 mm
  12. Dec21°13°68 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 Mérida.

Botanical garden

Botanical Garden of Mérida is an arboretum in Venezuela, 1,803 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 64% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

178 species have been recorded around it: 9 plants, 1 fungi, 162 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Pseudechinolaena polystachya, Bejaria aestuans and Heartleaf madeiravine.

The best time to walk is from December to February.

Entrada Jardín Botánico Mérida
Ramses Hatem · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Camping Méridacampsite · 5.0 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Hotel La Terrazaplace to stay · 0.6 km · 97 within 10 km
  • Méridanearest town · 5.7 km in a straight line
  • Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso Airport (VIG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 58 km in a straight line

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 Mérida 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
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmPrimera Cascada, Segunda Cascada, Sendero de Las Heroínas and 2 more
  • 47car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmCamping Mérida, Bosque de pinos, Campamento Los Anteojos
  • 97places to stay within 10 kmHotel La Terraza, Hotel Río Milla, Hotel Entre Ríos and 94 more
  • 55restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Mérida.

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.

Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Pico El Toro4,755 m · 12 kmPico El León4,740 m · 13 kmPico Espejo4,765 m · 14 kmPico Bolívar4,978 m · 14 kmPico La Concha4,922 m · 15 kmPico Bonpland4,883 m · 18 kmHumboldt peak4,940 m · 18 kmAlto de La Pata4,183 m · 22 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Pico Bolívar4,978 m · 14 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.

Jardín Botánico de Mérida 6
TainaHijadeDios · CC BY-SA 3.0
"Mata de Cambur" (Musa paradisiaca) en el Jardín Botánico de Mérida
TainaHijadeDios · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arboles de Mérida
Ramses Hatem · CC BY-SA 3.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q153541) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,807 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, Viewyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here