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Forêt Domaniale de Zeralda

Poudou99 · CC BY-SA 4.0

14% trees around it and 114 species recorded.

37Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km76%
  • species recorded114

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 7%Grassland 20%Wetland 0%Water 17%Bare ground 10%Cropland 13%Built-up 32%Trees 15%Grassland 15%Water 38%Bare ground 2%Cropland 11%Built-up 18%Trees 15%Shrubland 1%Grassland 16%Water 41%Bare ground 4%Cropland 10%Built-up 13%Trees 11%Shrubland 1%Grassland 19%Water 44%Bare ground 2%Cropland 12%Built-up 11%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km7%
  • 1–3 km15%
  • 3–6 km15%
  • 6–10 km11%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees15%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland15%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water38%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland11%
  • Built-up18%

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

114 species recorded.

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

Cutleaf stork's bill
Cutleaf stork's billErodium laciniatum15 recordsGideon Pisanty ( Gidip ) גדעון פיזנטי · CC BY 3.0
Animated oat
Animated oatAvena sterilis10 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Toothed lavender
Toothed lavenderLavandula dentata5 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Candelabra aloe
Candelabra aloeAloe arborescens3 recordsTon Rulkens from Mozambique · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bermuda buttercup
Bermuda buttercupOxalis pes-caprae3 recordsM ath K night and Zachi Evenor אביר המתמטיקה וצחי אבנור · CC BY-SA 4.0
Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Phoenician Juniper
Phoenician JuniperJuniperus phoenicea2 recordsJúlio Reis ( Tintazul ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
St. Bernard’s lily
St. Bernard’s lilyAnthericum liliago2 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY 2.5
Laurustinus
LaurustinusViburnum tinus2 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Sea-holly
Sea-hollyEryngium maritimum2 recordsJúlio Reis ( Tintazul ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Harestail grass
Harestail grassLagurus ovatus2 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY-SA 3.0
Castor oil plant
Castor oil plantRicinus communis2 recordsNolege · 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.

37out 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
  • 76%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 114Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April and in November.

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

  1. Jan13°5°89 mm
  2. Feb14°5°69 mm
  3. Mar17°7°68 mm
  4. Apr20°10°64 mm
  5. May24°13°46 mm
  6. Jun30°17°14 mm
  7. Jul34°21°5 mm
  8. Aug34°21°13 mm
  9. Sep29°18°39 mm
  10. Oct25°14°58 mm
  11. Nov18°10°92 mm
  12. Dec14°6°83 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Forêt Domaniale de Zeralda.

Forest in Mitidja, in Algeria

Forêt Domaniale de Zeralda is a forest in Algeria.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 76% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

114 species have been recorded around it: 18 plants, 2 fungi, 94 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cutleaf stork's bill, Animated oat and Toothed lavender.

The best time to walk is from March to April and in November.

Gare de Zéralda - 2026-06-15 - IMG 0008
Poudou99 · 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.

Forêt Domaniale de Zeralda 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

  • 7shelters and huts within 6 kmJjjjjjjj and 6 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmCité LPP 1200
  • 60car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmمركز الراحة العائلي للجيش, Gurbağ Kamp
  • 93places to stay within 10 kmاولاد سيدي ابراهيم, AZ Hôtel, El Nour and 90 more
  • 36restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Domaniale de Zeralda.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Grand Vent14 kmMassif de la Bouzareah19 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Plage des Pins3.0 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Center of Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and GeophysicsBortle 8 · 20 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.

Cité AADL de Zeralda
Poseidon dz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Génie - Zéralda زرالدة - panoramio
habib kaki · CC BY 3.0
Gare de Zéralda - 2026-06-15 - IMG 0014
Poudou99 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Forêt Domaniale de Zeralda

Algeria

  • 37Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 114Species

Botanical Garden of Hamma

Algeria · 22 km

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 10%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 66Species

See the guide

Mediterranean woodlands and forests

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  • 12Forestyas Score
  • 4%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q23780038) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species10,386 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, Coastya, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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