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Conakry Botanical Garden

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

2% trees around it and 91 species recorded.

38Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km2%
  • wild within 10 km89%
  • species recorded91

The forest around

2% 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%Grassland 2%Wetland 1%Water 24%Bare ground 3%Built-up 63%Trees 1%Grassland 0%Wetland 0%Water 78%Bare ground 1%Built-up 20%Trees 0%Water 87%Bare ground 0%Built-up 12%Trees 2%Grassland 1%Water 87%Bare ground 0%Built-up 9%2%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km6%
  • 1–3 km1%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km2%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees1%
  • Grassland0%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water78%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Built-up20%

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

91 species recorded.

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

Lance-leaved Ground-cherry
Lance-leaved Ground-cherryPhysalis angulata5 recordsFrancisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain
Mussaenda erythrophylla
Mussaenda erythrophyllaMussaenda erythrophylla3 recordsMeneerke bloem · CC BY-SA 3.0
Euphorbia hirta
Euphorbia hirtaEuphorbia hirta3 recordsJuan Carlos Fonseca Mata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Confederate-vine
Confederate-vineAntigonon leptopus2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Bouba assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Nightshade
NightshadeSolanum macrocarpon2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
White leadtree
White leadtreeLeucaena leucocephala2 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
CinnamonVU
CinnamonCinnamomum verum2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Alligator pear
Alligator pearPersea americana2 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Redflower ragleaf
Redflower ragleafCrassocephalum crepidioides2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Yellow Trumpetbush
Yellow TrumpetbushTecoma stans2 recordsFilo gèn' · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mangostan
MangostanGarcinia mangostana2 recordsasano · CC BY-SA 3.0
Neem Tree
Neem TreeAzadirachta indica2 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

38out of 100

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

  • 2%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 89%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 91Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to April and in November.

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

  1. Jan30°24°0 mm
  2. Feb30°25°2 mm
  3. Mar30°25°1 mm
  4. Apr30°25°13 mm
  5. May29°26°90 mm
  6. Jun28°26°352 mm
  7. Jul27°26°826 mm
  8. Aug27°25°943 mm
  9. Sep27°25°441 mm
  10. Oct28°26°173 mm
  11. Nov29°26°52 mm
  12. Dec30°25°2 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Conakry Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Conakry, Guinea

Conakry Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Guinea.

Seen from space, 2% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 89% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

91 species have been recorded around it: 17 plants, 0 fungi, 74 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Lance-leaved Ground-cherry, Mussaenda erythrophylla and Euphorbia hirta.

The best time to walk is from January to April and in November.

Conakry Botanical Garden 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

  • Maison Françoisecampsite · 2.8 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Résidence Fleurieplace to stay · 0.4 km · 79 within 10 km
  • Camayennenearest town · 0.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in CamayenneBooking.com · sponsored link
  • Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (CKY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 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.

Conakry 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmLieux-dit "Colombie"
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmMadina market enter
  • 30car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmMaison Françoise
  • 79places to stay within 10 kmRésidence Fleurie, Taj Mahal, Hôtel Le Miel and 76 more
  • 80restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 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 Conakry 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.

Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Sommet Souroguia9.0 kmSommet Horace9.3 kmSommet Kouromandja10 kmSommet Ballay14 kmSommet Mady14 kmSommet Richard14 kmSommet Lacroix15 kmSommet Lapparent17 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Anse du Dragonnier4.6 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Conakry Botanical Garden

Guinea

  • 38Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 91Species

Kouratier

Guinea · 202 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 75Species

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Cotton Tree

Sierra Leone · 126 km

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 15Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5158067) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species804 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, Coastya

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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