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Dodda Alada Mara

Jnprasad2001 · CC BY-SA 4.0

14% trees around it and 109 species recorded.

27Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km54%
  • species recorded109
  • Altitude845 m

The forest around

14% 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 9%Shrubland 11%Grassland 24%Water 0%Cropland 40%Built-up 14%Trees 14%Shrubland 21%Grassland 16%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 40%Built-up 8%Trees 12%Shrubland 21%Grassland 15%Water 1%Bare ground 3%Cropland 39%Built-up 9%Trees 15%Shrubland 24%Grassland 12%Water 2%Bare ground 1%Cropland 34%Built-up 12%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km9%
  • 1–3 km14%
  • 3–6 km12%
  • 6–10 km15%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees14%
  • Shrubland21%
  • Grassland16%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland40%
  • Built-up8%

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

109 species recorded.

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

Confederate-vine
Confederate-vineAntigonon leptopus2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Bouba assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Bluewings
BluewingsTorenia fournieri2 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Indian banyan
Indian banyanFicus benghalensis2 recordsAhoerstemeier · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

27out of 100

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

  • 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 54%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 109Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 845 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in December.

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

  1. Jan29°14°2 mm
  2. Feb32°15°4 mm
  3. Mar35°19°17 mm
  4. Apr35°21°57 mm
  5. May33°21°110 mm
  6. Jun29°20°76 mm
  7. Jul28°19°100 mm
  8. Aug28°19°112 mm
  9. Sep28°19°152 mm
  10. Oct27°18°141 mm
  11. Nov26°16°56 mm
  12. Dec26°14°15 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Dodda Alada Mara.

Banyan tree in Karnataka, India

Dodda Alada Mara is a notable tree in India, 845 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 54% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

109 species have been recorded around it: 3 plants, 0 fungi, 106 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Confederate-vine, Bluewings and Indian banyan.

The best time to walk is in December.

Dodda Alada Mara
Jnprasad2001 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Dodda Alada Mara 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 kmBig Banyan Tree
  • 2shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmFever Pitch Base Camp', Camp XtremeZone
  • 17places to stay within 10 kmRuppis, Sunrise Living boys hostel, Zolo Altair and 14 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 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 Dodda Alada Mara.

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.

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Savandurga11 kmShrungagiri Sri Shanmukha Swamy Temple14 kmDubakottige Betta23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Thippagondanahalli Reservoir5.2 km² · 9.3 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, BengaluruBortle 9 · 23 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.

Roots of BIG Banyan Tree
Krishansubudhi · CC BY-SA 3.0
DodaAladaMara
Original uploader was BostonMA at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dodda Alada Mara banyan 8
T. R. Shankar Raman · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Dodda Alada Mara

India

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 109Species

Turahalli Forest

India · 14 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 25%Trees
  • 44%Wild
  • 400Species

See the guide

Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore

India · 22 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 24%Wild
  • 304Species

See the guide

South Western Ghats montane rain forests

India · 307 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 52%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 312Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5287736) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,729 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas

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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