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Mauritius Mauritius arboretum

Curepipe Botanic Gardens

Abu Shawka · CC0

64% trees around it and 31 species recorded.

60Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km64%
  • wild within 10 km80%
  • species recorded31
  • Altitude575 m

The forest around

64% 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 47%Grassland 9%Built-up 45%Trees 66%Shrubland 0%Grassland 11%Cropland 3%Built-up 19%Trees 62%Shrubland 0%Grassland 15%Water 4%Cropland 7%Built-up 12%Trees 55%Shrubland 0%Grassland 21%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 12%Built-up 7%64%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km47%
  • 1–3 km66%
  • 3–6 km62%
  • 6–10 km55%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees66%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland11%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up19%

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

31 species recorded.

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

Chulta
ChultaDillenia indica6 recordsMelmakko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fairy Iris
Fairy IrisDietes grandiflora4 recordsRojer Wisner · CC BY 2.0
Madamfate
MadamfateHippobroma longiflora4 recordsrainerburkard · CC BY 4.0
Miconia crenata
Miconia crenataMiconia crenata4 recordsDamien Wallace · CC BY 4.0
Cream garland-lily
Cream garland-lilyHedychium flavescens3 recordsWilder Mendez aka. Lezumbalaberenjena at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Earleaf nightshade
Earleaf nightshadeSolanum mauritianum3 recordsPeter Greenwell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purple granadilla
Purple granadillaPassiflora edulis2 recordsRarani · CC BY-SA 4.0
Erigeron sumatrensis
Erigeron sumatrensisErigeron sumatrensis2 recordsHarry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Old World forkedfern
Old World forkedfernDicranopteris linearis2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Common screwpine
Common screwpinePandanus utilis2 recordsP. Hughes · CC BY-SA 4.0
Boehmeria pendulifloraBoehmeria penduliflora3 records
White Garland-lily, White ginger lily, White ginger, White butterfly ginger, White butterfly ginger lily, Butterfly ginger, Butterfly lily, Cinnamon jasmine, Garland flower, Garland lily, Ginger lily, White ginger butterfly lilyHedychium coronarium3 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

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

  • 64%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 80%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 31Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 575 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from July to September.

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

  1. Jan28°26°126 mm
  2. Feb28°26°113 mm
  3. Mar28°26°124 mm
  4. Apr27°25°79 mm
  5. May26°24°46 mm
  6. Jun24°22°32 mm
  7. Jul24°21°28 mm
  8. Aug23°21°26 mm
  9. Sep24°21°29 mm
  10. Oct25°22°31 mm
  11. Nov26°23°34 mm
  12. Dec28°25°48 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Curepipe Botanic Gardens.

Curepipe Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in Mauritius, 575 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 64% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 80% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

31 species have been recorded around it: 14 plants, 1 fungi, 16 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Chulta, Fairy Iris and Madamfate.

The best time to walk is from July to September.

SSR Curepipe Botanical Gardens - Mauritius 1
Abu Shawka · 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.

Curepipe Botanic Gardens 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

  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 39car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 29places to stay within 10 kmMaison au Clos de la Forêt, La Vigie Guesthouse, Happy Ours Guesthouse and 26 more
  • 22restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Curepipe Botanic Gardens.

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.

Peakyas84 mountains within 25 km
Trou aux Cerfs605 m · 1.7 kmTrois Mamelles629 m · 8.0 kmCorps de Garde720 m · 11 kmMontagne Cocotte771 m · 14 kmLe Pouce812 m · 14 kmPiton de la Petite Rivière Noire828 m · 15 kmPieter Both820 m · 16 kmPlaine Champagne Road680 m · 18 km
Islandyasthe island
Mauritius Island1,874 km²
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Mare aux Vacoas3.5 km² · 5.6 kmMare Longue Reservoir0.7 km² · 8.7 kmLa Ferme Reservoir1.4 km² · 13 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Rivulet Terre Rouge Estuary Bird Sanctuary57 species · 22 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 km
Tamarind Falls250 m · 6.2 kmMare aux Joncs11 kmAlexandra Falls14 kmCascade Diamamouve15 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.

SSR Curepipe Botanical Gardens - Mauritius 4
Abu Shawka · CC0
Hyophorbe-amaricaulis
Christian Hauzar · CC BY 3.0
Busbahnhof Curepipe 2019-09-30 2
Z thomas · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Curepipe Botanic Gardens

Mauritius

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 31Species

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden

Mauritius · 25 km

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 37%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 57Species

See the guide

Forêt du Tapcal

France · 236 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 38%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 756Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3162393) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species164 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas

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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