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Botanical garden of Portoviejo

Cayambe · CC BY-SA 3.0

47% trees around it and 101 species recorded.

60Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km47%
  • wild within 10 km87%
  • species recorded101
  • Altitude107 m

The forest around

47% 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 55%Shrubland 1%Grassland 4%Built-up 40%Trees 46%Shrubland 0%Grassland 9%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 44%Trees 58%Shrubland 2%Grassland 22%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 16%Trees 62%Shrubland 3%Grassland 29%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 4%47%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km55%
  • 1–3 km46%
  • 3–6 km58%
  • 6–10 km62%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees46%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up44%

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

101 species recorded.

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

Peanut
PeanutArachis hypogaea8 recordsMunkaila Sulemana · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bitter Cassava
Bitter CassavaManihot esculenta6 recordsVpuipV · CC BY-SA 4.0
Swollen fingergrass
Swollen fingergrassChloris barbata4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Johnsongrass
JohnsongrassSorghum halepense3 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Common wild sorghum
Common wild sorghumSorghum arundinaceum3 recordsZyance · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bignonia longifloraBignonia longiflora4 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

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

  • 47%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 87%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 101Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 107 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to September.

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

  1. Jan28°22°104 mm
  2. Feb28°23°159 mm
  3. Mar28°23°152 mm
  4. Apr28°22°82 mm
  5. May28°22°31 mm
  6. Jun28°21°10 mm
  7. Jul28°20°3 mm
  8. Aug28°20°2 mm
  9. Sep28°20°2 mm
  10. Oct28°20°4 mm
  11. Nov28°20°4 mm
  12. Dec28°21°20 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 Portoviejo.

Botanical garden of Portoviejo is an arboretum in Ecuador.

Seen from space, 47% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 87% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

101 species have been recorded around it: 6 plants, 0 fungi, 95 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Peanut, Bitter Cassava and Swollen fingergrass.

The best time to walk is from May to September.

Water hyacinth Ec Portoviejo
Cayambe · 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 Portoviejo 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

  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmMirador Las Pulgas
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Office
  • 112car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmAGRE S.A
  • 31places to stay within 10 kmmotel patricio, Casa Lolita Hotel - Boutique, San Fernando and 28 more
  • 211restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Portoviejo.

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.

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Cerro Agua Nueva20 kmCerro Montecristi24 kmCerros de Balsamo24 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.

Publico (7516125252)
Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mesa (7516125500)
Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Botanical garden of Portoviejo

Ecuador

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 101Species

Atocha-La Liria Botanical Garden

Ecuador · 205 km

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 94Species

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Quito Botanical Gardens

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  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 58%Wild
  • 280Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q20022388) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,309 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

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

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