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Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National Botanical Garden

Heptazane ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

23% trees around it and 247 species recorded.

37Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km23%
  • wild within 10 km53%
  • species recorded247
  • Altitude56 m

The forest around

23% 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 42%Grassland 1%Built-up 57%Trees 20%Grassland 3%Bare ground 0%Built-up 76%Trees 26%Grassland 5%Wetland 0%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Built-up 68%Trees 25%Grassland 13%Wetland 0%Water 26%Bare ground 1%Built-up 35%23%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km42%
  • 1–3 km20%
  • 3–6 km26%
  • 6–10 km25%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees20%
  • Grassland3%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up76%

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

247 species recorded.

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

Scarletbush
ScarletbushHamelia patens14 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Ogiera
OgieraEleutheranthera ruderalis7 recordsVengolis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Turkey berry
Turkey berrySolanum torvum6 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cabbagebark tree
Cabbagebark treeAndira inermis6 recordsS.Pereira-Nunes · CC BY-SA 4.0
West Indian cherry
West Indian cherryPrunus myrtifolia6 recordsDescourtilz, J. Theodore.; Descourtilz, M. E.; Pichard. · Public domain
Gumbo limbo
Gumbo limboBursera simaruba6 recordsLouise Wolff ( darina ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Paradisetree
ParadisetreeSimarouba glauca6 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Satinleaf
SatinleafChrysophyllum oliviforme5 recordsKATHERINE WAGNER-REISS · CC BY-SA 4.0
Coco Plant
Coco PlantChrysobalanus icaco5 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Coatbuttons
CoatbuttonsTridax procumbens5 recordsWibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
CottonVU
CottonGossypium hirsutum5 recordsChriKo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Paurotis palm
Paurotis palmAcoelorraphe wrightii5 recordsMmcknight4 · 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.

37out of 100

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

  • 23%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 53%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 247Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 56 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to March.

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

  1. Jan29°21°24 mm
  2. Feb29°21°21 mm
  3. Mar30°21°22 mm
  4. Apr30°22°40 mm
  5. May30°23°68 mm
  6. Jun31°24°48 mm
  7. Jul31°24°55 mm
  8. Aug31°24°68 mm
  9. Sep31°24°60 mm
  10. Oct30°24°64 mm
  11. Nov30°23°68 mm
  12. Dec29°22°42 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National Botanical Garden.

Garden in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Dominican Republic.

Seen from space, 23% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 53% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

247 species have been recorded around it: 113 plants, 4 fungi, 127 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Scarletbush, Ogiera and Turkey berry.

The best time to walk is from December to March.

National Botanical Garden Santo Domingo Japanese Garden
Heptazane ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmParque Mirador del Norte
  • 207car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmCondominio Real II, casa de España, Petroservicio Hernández and 1 more
  • 967places to stay within 10 kmApartahotel Drake, Real Intercontinental, Centro de Servicios Comunitarios and 964 more
  • 192restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees 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 Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National 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.

Peakyas25 mountains within 25 km
Loma de Porquero14 kmLoma La Lechuza16 kmLoma La América17 kmLoma Sabana18 kmCerro Peña Felipe18 kmLoma La Vigía18 kmLoma La Búcara20 kmLoma de los Pinos24 km
Islandyasthe island
Hispaniola76,420 km²
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Pomier Caves19 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.

Dr Rafael Ma Mascoso Bust
Heptazane ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
National Botanical Garden Santo Domingo Entrance
Heptazane at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jardín Botánico Nacional (33318691991)
David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5304337) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species30,234 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, Cavernyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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