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Chitgar Park

ak ba · CC BY-SA 3.0

24% trees around it and 216 species recorded.

34Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km24%
  • wild within 10 km51%
  • species recorded216
  • Altitude1,290 m

The forest around

24% 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 66%Shrubland 24%Grassland 2%Bare ground 1%Built-up 6%Trees 19%Shrubland 6%Grassland 5%Water 5%Bare ground 7%Built-up 58%Trees 7%Shrubland 4%Grassland 15%Water 0%Bare ground 17%Cropland 2%Built-up 55%Trees 7%Shrubland 4%Grassland 24%Bare ground 20%Cropland 8%Built-up 37%24%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km66%
  • 1–3 km19%
  • 3–6 km7%
  • 6–10 km7%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees19%
  • Shrubland6%
  • Grassland5%
  • Water5%
  • Bare ground7%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up58%

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

216 species recorded.

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

Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Ixiolirion tataricum
Ixiolirion tataricumIxiolirion tataricum4 recordsKudaibergen Amirekul · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stachys inflata
Stachys inflataStachys inflata4 recordsEdwards, Sydenham, 1769?-1819; Lindley, John, 1799-1865 · No restrictions
Marvel of Peru
Marvel of PeruMirabilis jalapa3 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common mallow
Common mallowMalva sylvestris3 recordsKöhler, F. E. (Franz Eugen) · Public domain
Cleome coluteoides
Cleome coluteoidesCleome coluteoides3 recordsAmirh. absnd · CC0
Common dandelion
Common dandelionTaraxacum officinale3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cream narcissus
Cream narcissusNarcissus tazetta2 recordsZachi Evenor · CC BY 2.0
Yellow monkswort
Yellow monkswortNonea lutea2 recordspeganum from Small Dole, England · CC BY-SA 2.0
Hedge Bindweed
Hedge BindweedCalystegia sepium2 recordsJon Peli Oleaga · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sacred thorn-apple
Sacred thorn-appleDatura wrightii2 recordsDlarsen · Public domain
Sun spurge
Sun spurgeEuphorbia helioscopia2 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.

34out of 100

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

  • 24%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 51%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 216Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,290 mAltitudeabove the sea

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. Jan8°-2°34 mm
  2. Feb11°0°34 mm
  3. Mar17°4°35 mm
  4. Apr22°9°38 mm
  5. May29°15°15 mm
  6. Jun35°20°6 mm
  7. Jul38°23°7 mm
  8. Aug36°22°8 mm
  9. Sep32°18°16 mm
  10. Oct24°12°36 mm
  11. Nov15°4°45 mm
  12. Dec10°0°35 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chitgar Park.

Forest park in Tehran, Iran

Chitgar Park is a forest in Iran, 1,290 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 24% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 51% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

216 species have been recorded around it: 28 plants, 0 fungi, 184 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Oleander, Ixiolirion tataricum and Stachys inflata.

The best time to walk is from March to April.

Chitgar Park - panoramio
ak ba · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • کمپ لتمالcampsite · 6.6 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Hasan Aynevandplace to stay · 2.2 km · 46 within 10 km
  • Andīshehnearest town · 6.5 km in a straight line
  • Mehrabad International Airport (THR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight line

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.

Chitgar Park 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmبوستان وین
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 78shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 82car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmکمپ لتمال, بام تهران
  • 46places to stay within 10 kmHasan Aynevand, برج صدف, آپارتمان and 43 more
  • 52restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Chitgar Park.

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.

Peakyas72 mountains within 25 km
Kūh-e Dashteh14 kmChin Kalagh2,820 m · 17 kmKūh-e Chāl19 kmKūh-e Kotal Khākī20 kmKūh-e Chāl Nājī21 kmTappeh Haji Hojjat22 kmKūh-e Sorūdār22 kmShah Neshin3,875 m · 24 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.

Chitgar - panoramio
ak ba · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chitgar Lake - panoramio (1)
A.H Mansouri · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chitgar Lake - panoramio
A.H Mansouri · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Chitgar Park

Iran

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 216Species

National Botanical Garden of Iran

Iran · 3 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 133Species

See the guide

Lavizan Forest Park

Iran · 28 km

  • 32Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • 139Species

See the guide

Pardisan Park

Iran · 13 km

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 15%Trees
  • 30%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3363807) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species20,847 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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