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Cibola National Forest

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27% trees around it and 12 species recorded.

47Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km27%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded12
  • Altitude2,093 m

The forest around

27% 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 25%Shrubland 5%Grassland 68%Bare ground 2%Trees 27%Shrubland 13%Grassland 58%Bare ground 2%Trees 24%Shrubland 11%Grassland 61%Bare ground 3%Trees 35%Shrubland 11%Grassland 51%Bare ground 3%27%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km25%
  • 1–3 km27%
  • 3–6 km24%
  • 6–10 km35%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees27%
  • Shrubland13%
  • Grassland58%
  • Bare ground2%

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

12 species recorded.

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

Northern Raven
Northern RavenCorvus corax4 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red Tanager
Red TanagerPiranga flava3 recordsKennedy Andrade Borges · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Nighthawk
Common NighthawkChordeiles minor3 recordsGavin Keefe Schaefer · CC BY 2.0
Northern Mockingbird
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos3 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Northern Flicker
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus2 recordsNature's Pic's (www.naturespicsonline.com) · Attribution
Say's phoebe
Say's phoebeSayornis saya2 recordsWolfgang Wander · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chipping Sparrow
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina2 recordsMdf , Edited by Fir0002 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pinyon JayVU
Pinyon JayGymnorhinus cyanocephalus2 recordsDavid Menke · Public domain
Rock Wren
Rock WrenSalpinctes obsoletus2 recordsWolfgang Wander · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodhouse's Scrub Jay
Woodhouse's Scrub JayAphelocoma woodhouseii2 recordsRon Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Canyon Towhee
Canyon TowheeMelozone fusca2 recordsAlan D. Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mexican rosefinch
Mexican rosefinchHaemorhous mexicanus2 recordssergio niebla from Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, México · CC BY-SA 2.0

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).

  • 27%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 12Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,093 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan7°-5°16 mm
  2. Feb10°-4°12 mm
  3. Mar15°-1°10 mm
  4. Apr20°3°13 mm
  5. May25°8°14 mm
  6. Jun32°14°13 mm
  7. Jul30°17°61 mm
  8. Aug29°15°61 mm
  9. Sep26°11°41 mm
  10. Oct20°4°22 mm
  11. Nov13°-2°18 mm
  12. Dec7°-5°16 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cibola National Forest.

US national forest and grasslands in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, renamed from Manzano National Forest in 1931

Cibola National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,093 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 27% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

12 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 12 birds and 0 mammals.

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

Bosque nacional de Cibola -- el paisaje a lo largo de Route 66
Eden Aviv · CC0

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.

Cibola National Forest 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 Cibola National Forest.

    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.

    Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
    Indian Mesa9.1 kmGallinas Peak10 kmLa Cruz Peak11 kmHells Mesa12 kmLa Jara Peak14 kmCottonwood Draw Mesa23 kmGag Mesa24 kmGranite Mountain24 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.

    Hiking the Cienega Trail in the Sandia Mountains
    theturquoisetable · CC BY-SA 2.0
    CFLRP (Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program) (20190422-FS-Cibola-001)
    Forest Service Photography · Public domain
    Cibola National Forest - In Explore July 2015 - Flickr - illusionbreak
    Joe Diaz from San Antonio, US · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Other forests nearby.

    Cibola National Forest

    United States

    • 47Forestyas Score
    • 27%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 12Species

    Gila National Forest

    United States · 139 km

    • 62Forestyas Score
    • 41%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 100Species

    See the guide

    Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests

    United States · 188 km

    • 78Forestyas Score
    • 67%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 253Species

    See the guide

    Lincoln National Forest

    United States · 228 km

    • 84Forestyas Score
    • 96%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 141Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q5119235) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species64 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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