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Argentina Argentina arboretum

Chirau Mita Botanical Garden

Roberto Fiadone · CC BY-SA 3.0

4% trees around it and 65 species recorded.

39Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km4%
  • wild within 10 km91%
  • species recorded65
  • Altitude1,101 m

The forest around

4% 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 6%Shrubland 43%Grassland 0%Bare ground 7%Built-up 42%Trees 4%Shrubland 56%Grassland 2%Water 0%Bare ground 14%Cropland 0%Built-up 24%Trees 4%Shrubland 78%Grassland 2%Bare ground 12%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%Trees 3%Shrubland 73%Grassland 3%Bare ground 12%Cropland 8%Built-up 0%4%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km6%
  • 1–3 km4%
  • 3–6 km4%
  • 6–10 km3%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees4%
  • Shrubland56%
  • Grassland2%
  • Bare ground14%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up24%

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

65 species recorded.

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

Solanum kurtzianum
Solanum kurtzianumSolanum kurtzianum6 recordsElżbieta Renik · Public domain
Black pouiVU
Black pouiJacaranda mimosifolia3 recordsKahuroa · Public domain
Cotta grass
Cotta grassCottea pappophoroides2 recordsno rights reserved · CC0
Opuntia sulphurea
Opuntia sulphureaOpuntia sulphurea2 recordsOpuntia13_filtered.jpg : Mary Emily Eaton (1873-1961) Daniel Schweich for the filtred imag · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tephrocactus articulatus
Tephrocactus articulatusTephrocactus articulatus2 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Solanum × recheiSolanum ×rechei6 records
Solanum microdontumSolanum microdontum3 records
Euploca mendocinaEuploca mendocina3 records
Soehrensia strigosaSoehrensia strigosa2 records
Jatropha excisaJatropha excisa2 records
Sonoran palo verdeParkinsonia praecox2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

39out of 100

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

  • 4%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 91%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 65Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,101 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and from September to October.

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

  1. Jan24°10°93 mm
  2. Feb23°9°72 mm
  3. Mar21°7°59 mm
  4. Apr18°4°35 mm
  5. May15°1°12 mm
  6. Jun14°-1°4 mm
  7. Jul13°-2°4 mm
  8. Aug15°-1°2 mm
  9. Sep18°1°17 mm
  10. Oct21°4°19 mm
  11. Nov23°7°36 mm
  12. Dec24°9°70 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chirau Mita Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Argentina

Chirau Mita Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Argentina, 1,101 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 4% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 91% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

65 species have been recorded around it: 11 plants, 0 fungi, 50 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Solanum kurtzianum, Black poui and Cotta grass.

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

Museo Botánico Chirau Mita
Roberto Fiadone · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Camping Inti Huasicampsite · 1.7 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Hospedaje Mari Perezplace to stay · 0.4 km · 23 within 10 km
  • Chilecitonearest town · 1.2 km in a straight line
  • Capitan V A Almonacid Airport (IRJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 71 km in a straight lineCar hire in La RiojaDiscover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Chirau Mita 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

  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmSecretaría de Turismo
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmCamping Inti Huasi, Camping Santa Florentina, Camping Las Talas and 1 more
  • 23places to stay within 10 kmHospedaje Mari Perez, Hotel A.C.A., Howard Johnson Hotel and 20 more
  • 21restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints 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 Chirau Mita 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.

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Mogote Potrerillo15 kmCumbre Agua Negra15 kmSierra de Guanchin15 kmMonte Colorado16 kmCerro Negro21 kmCerro Miranda21 kmFilo Grande22 kmMorro Los Manzanos24 km

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

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5926752) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species559 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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