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Dibeen Forest Reserve

The original uploader was Ldud at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0

45% trees around it and 118 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km45%
  • wild within 10 km91%
  • species recorded118
  • Altitude967 m

The forest around

45% 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 49%Shrubland 30%Grassland 15%Cropland 4%Built-up 1%Trees 45%Shrubland 28%Grassland 21%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 3%Trees 30%Shrubland 21%Grassland 39%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 6%Trees 14%Shrubland 18%Grassland 56%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 3%Built-up 7%45%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km49%
  • 1–3 km45%
  • 3–6 km30%
  • 6–10 km14%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees45%
  • Shrubland28%
  • Grassland21%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up3%

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

118 species recorded.

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

Rivet wheat
Rivet wheatTriticum turgidum22 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Toothed Medick
Toothed MedickMedicago polymorpha21 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Blackdisk medick
Blackdisk medickMedicago orbicularis15 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Southern medick
Southern medickMedicago turbinata10 recordsMedicago_species_4—La_flore_et_la_pomone_francaises_(clean).jpg : * Medicago_species_4—La_ · Public domain
Medicago rotata
Medicago rotataMedicago rotata9 recordsNinjatacoshell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tifton burclover
Tifton burcloverMedicago rigidula9 recordsTracey Slotta @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database · Public domain
Spontaneous barley
Spontaneous barleyHordeum spontaneum7 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Barrelclover
BarrelcloverMedicago truncatula7 recordsNinjatacoshell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aegilops biuncialis
Aegilops biuncialisAegilops biuncialis6 recordsAbdenour Kheloufi · CC BY 4.0
Goatgrass
GoatgrassAegilops longissima5 recordsJose Hernandez · Public domain
Star clover
Star cloverTrifolium stellatum5 recordsGideon Pisanty ( Gidip ) · CC BY 3.0
Arbutus andrachne
Arbutus andrachneArbutus andrachne4 recordsHectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

58out of 100

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

  • 45%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 91%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 118Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 967 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in February and in December.

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

  1. Jan17°6°63 mm
  2. Feb19°6°58 mm
  3. Mar23°9°32 mm
  4. Apr27°12°15 mm
  5. May33°16°6 mm
  6. Jun36°19°1 mm
  7. Jul38°21°0 mm
  8. Aug38°21°1 mm
  9. Sep36°20°1 mm
  10. Oct31°18°8 mm
  11. Nov24°12°29 mm
  12. Dec19°8°52 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Dibeen Forest Reserve.

Forest reserve in Jordan

Dibeen Forest Reserve is a forest in Jordan, 967 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 45% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 91% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

118 species have been recorded around it: 40 plants, 0 fungi, 77 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rivet wheat, Toothed Medick and Blackdisk medick.

The best time to walk is in February and in December.

Dibeen Forest Reserve
The original uploader was Ldud at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Wild Campcampsite · 3.1 km · 7 within 10 km
  • Homestay, Eisa Zghoulplace to stay · 4.5 km · 19 within 10 km
  • Burmānearest town · 3.2 km in a straight line
  • Marka International (Amman Civil) Airport (ADJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 35 km in a straight lineCar hire at ADJ airport (Amman)Discover 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.

Dibeen Forest Reserve 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmJT 201, JT 202
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmWild Camp, Olive Branch Campsite and 5 more
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmHomestay, Eisa Zghoul, Olive Branch Resort, جرش and 16 more
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Dibeen Forest Reserve.

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.

Peakyas58 mountains within 25 km
Mount Umm Daraj1,247 m · 8.1 kmJabal Umm ad Daraj8.2 kmJebel et Tuweim11 kmTell el-Mazar19 kmTall Zakarī21 kmTell es-Saidiyeh22 kmAt Tall aţ Ţawīl23 kmTall Umm Ḩammād24 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.

Dibeen Trees
The original uploader was Ldud at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
A camp at Dibeen Forest Reserve (1)
SinanDira · CC BY-SA 4.0
A camp at Dibeen Forest Reserve (2)
SinanDira · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Dibeen Forest Reserve

Jordan

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 118Species

Ajloun Forest Reserve

Jordan · 16 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 58%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 90Species

See the guide

Atatürk Forest (Israel)

Israel · 92 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 343Species

See the guide

Forest of the Martyrs

Israel · 87 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 59%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 255Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3383822) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,929 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.

The family

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