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Cameroonian Highlands forests

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

87% of the land around it is trees.

60Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km87%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • Altitude898 m

The forest around

87% 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 100%Grassland 0%Trees 86%Shrubland 3%Grassland 11%Trees 71%Shrubland 7%Grassland 22%Trees 69%Shrubland 7%Grassland 23%Cropland 0%87%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km86%
  • 3–6 km71%
  • 6–10 km69%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees86%
  • Shrubland3%
  • Grassland11%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

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).

  • 87%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 898 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from November to January.

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

  1. Jan30°16°2 mm
  2. Feb32°17°10 mm
  3. Mar31°19°63 mm
  4. Apr28°20°151 mm
  5. May27°20°164 mm
  6. Jun26°19°180 mm
  7. Jul26°18°223 mm
  8. Aug25°18°276 mm
  9. Sep26°18°262 mm
  10. Oct26°19°200 mm
  11. Nov28°18°48 mm
  12. Dec29°16°3 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cameroonian Highlands forests.

Ecoregion in Cameroon and Nigeria

Cameroonian Highlands forests is a forest in Nigeria, 898 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 87% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

The best time to walk is from November to January.

Cameroonian Highlands forests seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Cameroonian Highlands forests 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

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants 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 Cameroonian Highlands forests.

    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.

    Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
    Mbétmaluem8.5 kmBanki12 kmYaawo1,530 m · 13 kmKwetnkwen17 kmMbètkom22 km

    Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

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    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q2591088) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    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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