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Buenos Aires Botanical Garden

José María Pérez Nuñez · CC BY-SA 2.0

12% trees around it and 366 species recorded.

33Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km12%
  • wild within 10 km46%
  • species recorded366

The forest around

12% 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 20%Grassland 2%Built-up 78%Trees 11%Grassland 5%Water 4%Bare ground 1%Built-up 78%Trees 6%Grassland 2%Wetland 0%Water 30%Bare ground 0%Built-up 61%Trees 6%Grassland 3%Wetland 1%Water 43%Built-up 48%12%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km20%
  • 1–3 km11%
  • 3–6 km6%
  • 6–10 km6%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees11%
  • Grassland5%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water4%
  • Bare ground1%
  • 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

366 species recorded.

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

Bluecrown passionflower
Bluecrown passionflowerPassiflora caerulea33 recordsPetar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0
Persicaria capitata
Persicaria capitataPersicaria capitata19 recordsJJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cockspur Coral Tree
Cockspur Coral TreeErythrina crista-galli19 recordsPablo Bombín · CC0
Bloodflower
BloodflowerAsclepias curassavica16 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Spearleaf swampmallow
Spearleaf swampmallowPavonia hastata16 recordsDavid Midgley · CC BY-SA 2.5
Phytolacca dioica
Phytolacca dioicaPhytolacca dioica16 recordsGabriel Collares · CC BY 4.0
Sky Flower
Sky FlowerDuranta erecta14 recordsGowrivemban · CC0
Jodina rhombifolia
Jodina rhombifoliaJodina rhombifolia13 recordsFernando Lopez Anido · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lily of the valley vine
Lily of the valley vineSalpichroa origanifolia12 recordsMarcia Stefani · CC BY 2.0
Yellow Trumpetbush
Yellow TrumpetbushTecoma stans12 recordsFilo gèn' · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blue Commelina
Blue CommelinaCommelina erecta11 recordsAssaf Shtilman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Small-leaf spiderwort
Small-leaf spiderwortTradescantia fluminensis10 recordsEnrique Dans from Madrid, Spain · CC BY 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

33out of 100

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

  • 12%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 46%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 366Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and from September to October.

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

  1. Jan28°22°104 mm
  2. Feb27°21°122 mm
  3. Mar25°20°123 mm
  4. Apr21°16°98 mm
  5. May17°13°74 mm
  6. Jun14°10°54 mm
  7. Jul13°9°72 mm
  8. Aug15°10°71 mm
  9. Sep17°12°83 mm
  10. Oct20°15°109 mm
  11. Nov24°18°100 mm
  12. Dec26°20°94 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Buenos Aires Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Argentina.

Seen from space, 12% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 46% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

366 species have been recorded around it: 158 plants, 16 fungi, 184 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bluecrown passionflower, Persicaria capitata and Cockspur Coral Tree.

The best time to walk is from April to May and from September to October.

Weather device at the Buenos Aires Botanical Gardens
José María Pérez Nuñez · CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

Buenos Aires Botanical Garden 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

  • 12named and notable trees within 6 kmGomero de la Recoleta, Ombú de Barrancas de Belgrano, El ombú de Parque Rivadavia and 9 more
  • 109picnic sites within 4 km
  • 21shelters and huts within 6 kmPérgola Iwate, Glorieta and 19 more
  • 22viewpoints within 5 kmMirador Galería Güemes, Puente de la Mujer, Mirador Obelisco and 19 more
  • 18visitor centres within 6 kmCentro de Atención al Turista: Lagos de Palermo, Centro de Atención al Turista: Recoleta, Centro de Atención al Turista: Retiro and 15 more
  • 423car parks within 3 km
  • 634places to stay within 10 kmHotel León, Hotel Recoleta, Chateau Blend Hotel Boutique and 631 more
  • 1,649restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Buenos Aires Botanical Garden.

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.

Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Planetario Galileo GalileiBortle 9 · 1.6 kmArgentine Association of Amateur AstronomersBortle 9 · 2.9 kmSan José ObservatoryBortle 9 · 3.2 kmAstrodomi ObservatoryBortle 9 · 26 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Torre Monumental4.3 kmTorre Espacial10 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve350 species · 6.5 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.

Buenos Aires Jardin Botanico Carlos Thays 00
Arcibel · Public domain
Buenos Aires Jardin Botanico Carlos Thays 02
Arcibel · Public domain
2019 Buenos Aires - El despertar de la naturaleza, estatua de Juan de Pari
Felipe Restrepo Acosta · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Buenos Aires Botanical Garden

Argentina

  • 33Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 46%Wild
  • 366Species

El Rosedal De Palermo

Argentina · 1 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 396Species

See the guide

Rosaleda

Uruguay · 205 km

  • 31Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 212Species

See the guide

Prof. Atilio Lombardo Museum and Botanical Garden

Uruguay · 205 km

  • 30Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 53%Wild
  • 186Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q831148) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species52,313 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 atlasesDarkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas

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.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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