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Bouknadel Gardens

Mounir Neddi · CC BY-SA 4.0

9% trees around it and 58 species recorded.

36Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km9%
  • wild within 10 km80%
  • species recorded58

The forest around

9% 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 21%Shrubland 0%Grassland 41%Bare ground 0%Cropland 27%Built-up 11%Trees 7%Shrubland 0%Grassland 26%Water 30%Bare ground 3%Cropland 15%Built-up 18%Trees 8%Shrubland 3%Grassland 18%Water 41%Bare ground 2%Cropland 11%Built-up 16%Trees 12%Shrubland 12%Grassland 15%Wetland 0%Water 44%Bare ground 2%Cropland 6%Built-up 9%9%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km21%
  • 1–3 km7%
  • 3–6 km8%
  • 6–10 km12%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees7%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland26%
  • Water30%
  • Bare ground3%
  • Cropland15%
  • Built-up18%

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

58 species recorded.

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

Medicago italica
Medicago italicaMedicago italica18 recordsNinjatacoshell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Medicago tornata
Medicago tornataMedicago tornata11 recordsTracey Slotta @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database · Public domain
Water medick
Water medickMedicago littoralis6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Candelabra aloe
Candelabra aloeAloe arborescens5 recordsTon Rulkens from Mozambique · CC BY-SA 2.0
Toothed Medick
Toothed MedickMedicago polymorpha3 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Ruscus hypophyllum
Ruscus hypophyllumRuscus hypophyllum2 recordslaurha from España · CC BY 2.0
Bear's Breeches
Bear's BreechesAcanthus mollis2 recordsHectonichus · 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.

36out of 100

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

  • 9%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 80%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 58Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April.

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

  1. Jan17°11°66 mm
  2. Feb17°11°52 mm
  3. Mar19°12°55 mm
  4. Apr20°14°38 mm
  5. May23°16°19 mm
  6. Jun26°18°3 mm
  7. Jul27°20°2 mm
  8. Aug28°21°2 mm
  9. Sep26°20°33 mm
  10. Oct24°18°55 mm
  11. Nov20°14°98 mm
  12. Dec18°12°67 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bouknadel Gardens.

Moroccan cultural heritage site

Bouknadel Gardens is an arboretum in Morocco.

Seen from space, 9% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 80% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

58 species have been recorded around it: 7 plants, 0 fungi, 51 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Medicago italica, Medicago tornata and Water medick.

The best time to walk is from March to April.

Azolla from Exotic gardens of Bouknadel 20
Mounir Neddi · 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.

Bouknadel Gardens 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
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 134places to stay within 10 kmRiad The Repose, Dar Zahra, Dar El Baraka and 131 more
  • 15restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints 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 Bouknadel Gardens.

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.

Peakyas51 mountains within 25 km
Koudiat el Kra9.5 kmKoudiat Rhamat12 kmJebel Bakach16 kmKzibet20 kmKorsi20 kmTalâa Sidi el Haj Hedi21 kmMhignat Touama22 kmDhar ech Chems24 km
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Plage des Nations6.8 kmShāţi’ ar Ribāţ9.7 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Rabat ObservatoryBortle 5 · 19 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.

Azolla from Exotic gardens of Bouknadel 21
Mounir Neddi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Corridor - Exotic Gardens of Sidi Bouknadel - November 2024
Anass Sedrati · CC BY-SA 4.0
Entrance - Exotic Gardens of Sidi Bouknadel - November 2024
Anass Sedrati · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Bouknadel Gardens

Morocco

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 58Species

El Ma’moura

Morocco · 15 km

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 15%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 56Species

See the guide

Cèdre Gouraud

Morocco · 166 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 106Species

See the guide

Gibraltar Botanic Gardens

United Kingdom · 260 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 5%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 427Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q12186211) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species361 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, Coastya, Darkskyas

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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