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Chapultepec

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39% trees around it and 1,010 species recorded.

47Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km39%
  • wild within 10 km24%
  • species recorded1,010
  • Altitude2,293 m

The forest around

39% 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 2%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Built-up 41%Trees 38%Shrubland 0%Grassland 0%Bare ground 1%Built-up 61%Trees 21%Shrubland 1%Grassland 0%Bare ground 1%Built-up 77%Trees 19%Shrubland 1%Grassland 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 78%39%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km55%
  • 1–3 km38%
  • 3–6 km21%
  • 6–10 km19%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees38%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Built-up61%

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

1,010 species recorded.

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

Sky Flower
Sky FlowerDuranta erecta77 recordsGowrivemban · CC0
Black-eyed Susan vine
Black-eyed Susan vineThunbergia alata50 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Scarlet runner
Scarlet runnerPhaseolus coccineus29 recordsMickaël Schauli · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ornamental nightshade
Ornamental nightshadeSolanum bulbocastanum26 recordsAmédée Masclef · Public domain
Rivet wheat
Rivet wheatTriticum turgidum25 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mexican lovegrass
Mexican lovegrassEragrostis mexicana23 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Annual Meadow Grass
Annual Meadow GrassPoa annua21 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 10:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mexican bush sage
Mexican bush sageSalvia leucantha21 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Marvel of Peru
Marvel of PeruMirabilis jalapa19 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bermudagrass
BermudagrassCynodon dactylon19 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
California brome
California bromeBromus carinatus18 recordsLockeford Plant Materials Center (CAPMC) · Public domain
Rose evening primrose
Rose evening primroseOenothera rosea18 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

47out of 100

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

  • 39%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 24%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,010Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,293 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from October to February.

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

  1. Jan18°3°9 mm
  2. Feb20°4°12 mm
  3. Mar23°6°15 mm
  4. Apr25°8°22 mm
  5. May25°9°55 mm
  6. Jun22°10°135 mm
  7. Jul21°9°154 mm
  8. Aug20°9°154 mm
  9. Sep19°9°148 mm
  10. Oct19°7°64 mm
  11. Nov18°5°19 mm
  12. Dec18°4°6 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chapultepec.

Urban park in Mexico City

Chapultepec is a forest in Mexico, 2,293 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 39% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 24% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,010 species have been recorded around it: 654 plants, 33 fungi, 302 birds and 21 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sky Flower, Black-eyed Susan vine and Scarlet runner.

The best time to walk is from October to February.

RESTOS DE ALBERCA CHAPULTEPEC CDMEXICO
Sarumo74 · CC BY 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.

Chapultepec 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

  • 19named and notable trees within 6 kmPalmera, Fresno, Ahuehuete de Reforma and 16 more
  • 110picnic sites within 4 km
  • 133shelters and huts within 6 kmPata de Perro (ropa gratis de frío), Los Pinos, Museo de Sitio and 130 more
  • 11viewpoints within 5 kmForum Buenavista, シティオ, Mirador Panteon de Dolores and 8 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 201car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmScouts
  • 449places to stay within 10 kmHotel Kali Escandón, Condesa DF, FlowSuites WTC and 446 more
  • 836restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Chapultepec.

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.

Peakyas64 mountains within 25 km
Volcán Xictle3,049 m · volcano · 19 kmYuhualixqui2,420 m · volcano · 19 kmVolcán Xictontle3,030 m · volcano · 19 kmVolcán Cuatzontle2,928 m · volcano · 19 kmVolcán Man Nal3,071 m · volcano · 21 kmVolcán Yololica3,029 m · volcano · 22 kmTetlalmanche Volcano2,246 m · volcano · 23 kmVolcán Zompole2,637 m · volcano · 25 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.

MX TV JARDÍN BOTÁNICO DEL BOSQUE DE CHAPULTEPEC - 51224163890
Secretaría de Cultura CDMX · CC BY 2.0
NezaMonumentFountainChapultepec3
Thelmadatter · CC BY-SA 3.0
Puerta de los leones en Chapultepec 2
EneasMx · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Chapultepec

Mexico

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 24%Wild
  • 1,010Species

Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests

Mexico · 238 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 155Species

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Árbol del Tule

Mexico · 377 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 164Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q523194) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species133,267 open records within 5 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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