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Forêt de Bouconne

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

51% trees around it and 943 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km51%
  • wild within 10 km52%
  • species recorded943
  • Altitude187 m

The forest around

51% 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 30%Grassland 9%Cropland 60%Built-up 1%Trees 54%Grassland 14%Cropland 25%Built-up 7%Trees 36%Grassland 23%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 25%Built-up 14%Trees 26%Grassland 21%Water 0%Cropland 34%Built-up 20%51%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km30%
  • 1–3 km54%
  • 3–6 km36%
  • 6–10 km26%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees54%
  • Grassland14%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland25%
  • Built-up7%

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

943 species recorded.

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

Milky orchid
Milky orchidNeotinea lactea283 recordsOrchi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ruscus aculeatus
Ruscus aculeatusRuscus aculeatus273 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Vista~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims) · CC BY-SA 3.0
French rose
French roseRosa gallica223 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis129 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia123 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Salvia cistus
Salvia cistusCistus salviifolius103 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blackthorn
BlackthornPrunus spinosa103 recordsSphingonotus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Green-winged Orchid
Green-winged OrchidAnacamptis morio101 recordsDidier Desouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata98 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater creeping spearwort
Greater creeping spearwortRanunculus flammula97 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bladder campion
Bladder campionSilene vulgaris88 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lathraea clandestina
Lathraea clandestinaLathraea clandestina83 recordsMeneerke bloem · 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.

53out of 100

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

  • 51%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 52%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 943Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 187 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

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

  1. Jan9°2°79 mm
  2. Feb10°1°56 mm
  3. Mar14°4°65 mm
  4. Apr17°7°74 mm
  5. May21°10°86 mm
  6. Jun26°14°60 mm
  7. Jul29°17°50 mm
  8. Aug30°16°52 mm
  9. Sep25°13°51 mm
  10. Oct20°10°64 mm
  11. Nov13°5°79 mm
  12. Dec10°2°68 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Forêt de Bouconne.

Forest in Occitanie, France

Forêt de Bouconne is a forest in France.

Seen from space, 51% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 52% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

943 species have been recorded around it: 726 plants, 19 fungi, 147 birds and 51 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Milky orchid, Ruscus aculeatus and French rose.

The best time to walk is in October.

Forêt de Bouconne seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Forêt de Bouconne 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

  • 29marked trails within 5 kmAccès depuis Colomiers, Variante entre Pibrac et Bouconne, Sentier de la Tour and 26 more
  • 5named and notable trees within 6 kmPins and 4 more
  • 28picnic sites within 4 km
  • 30shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 138car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmAire Houero Porcs Bio, Parking Camping-Cars (Musee Aeroscopia)
  • 25places to stay within 10 kmLe Canard sur le Toit, Bon Plaisir, ACE Hôtel Blagnac Toulouse and 22 more
  • 7restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Forêt de Bouconne.

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.

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

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Forêt de Bouconne

France

  • 53Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 943Species

Forêt de la Double

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  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 673Species

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Irati Forest

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  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 667Species

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Pi de les Tres Branques

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  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 88%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 61Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3078829) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species33,924 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 atlasesDarkskyas

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

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