Spain notable tree
Drago de Icod de los Vinos
Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0
37% trees around it and 135 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km37%
- wild within 10 km97%
- species recorded135
- Altitude227 m
The forest around
37% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km38%
- 1–3 km36%
- 3–6 km40%
- 6–10 km29%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees36%
- Shrubland13%
- Grassland19%
- Water20%
- Bare ground1%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up9%
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
135 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
VU
Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 37%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 97%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 135Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 227 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in January and from March to April.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan17°29 mm
- Feb16°33 mm
- Mar16°24 mm
- Apr17°16 mm
- May18°8 mm
- Jun20°4 mm
- Jul21°2 mm
- Aug22°6 mm
- Sep22°11 mm
- Oct21°28 mm
- Nov20°42 mm
- Dec18°44 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Drago de Icod de los Vinos.
Giant tree in Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife
Drago de Icod de los Vinos is a notable tree in Spain, 227 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 37% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 97% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
135 species have been recorded around it: 89 plants, 3 fungi, 43 birds and 0 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Canary Island Dragon Tree, Indian Corn and Sweet potato.
The best time to walk is in January and from March to April.
Get there and walk
- Zona de Acampada de Las Hayascampsite · 5.7 km · 14 within 10 km
- Drago nest hostelplace to stay · 1.3 km · 58 within 10 km
- Icod de los Vinosnearest town · 1.2 km in a straight line
- Tenerife Sur Airport (TFS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 39 km in a straight lineCar hire at TFS airport (Tenerife)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 8marked trails within 5 kmGarachico - Montaña Chinyero, Camino de Santiago de Tenerife, Los Barrios Altos de Icod de los Vinos and 5 more
- 5named and notable trees within 6 kmDrago Milenario, Pino de Buen Paso, El Drago de San Antonio and 2 more
- 2picnic sites within 4 km
- 4shelters and huts within 6 km
- 19viewpoints within 5 kmMirador El Emigrante, Mirador al Drago Milenario, Mirador de La Atalaya and 16 more
- 3visitor centres within 6 kmCasa Museo "Los Cáceres", Oficina de turismo
- 61car parks within 3 km
- 14campsites within 10 kmZona de Acampada de Las Hayas, Zona de Acampada de Arenas Negras, Campamento El Lagar and 11 more
- 58places to stay within 10 kmDrago nest hostel, AD San Marcos by Alberto Dorner - Boutique & Luxury Lodging, Los Claveles Rentals and 55 more
- 46restaurants 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 Drago de Icod de los Vinos.
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.
Peakyas35 mountains within 25 km
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Viewyas10 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Drago de Icod de los Vinos
Spain
- 57Forestyas Score
- 37%Trees
- 97%Wild
- 135Species
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- 748Species
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- 55Forestyas Score
- 36%Trees
- 83%Wild
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Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q5814115) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 1,911 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Coastya, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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