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Fuyuan National Forest Recreation Area

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83% trees around it and 346 species recorded.

82Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km83%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded346
  • Altitude249 m

The forest around

83% 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 92%Grassland 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 1%Trees 82%Grassland 1%Cropland 14%Built-up 2%Trees 96%Grassland 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 0%Trees 96%Grassland 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%83%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km92%
  • 1–3 km82%
  • 3–6 km96%
  • 6–10 km96%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees82%
  • Grassland1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland14%
  • Built-up2%

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

346 species recorded.

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

Hairy beggarticks
Hairy beggarticksBidens pilosa29 recordsWiki Farazi · CC0
White leadtree
White leadtreeLeucaena leucocephala23 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Bluemink
BlueminkAgeratum houstonianum19 recordsHarry Alverson · CC BY-SA 2.0
Drosera burmanni
Drosera burmanniDrosera burmanni18 recordsJan Wieneke · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hilograss
HilograssPaspalum conjugatum16 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Boehmeria densiflora
Boehmeria densifloraBoehmeria densiflora15 recordsKeisotyo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Euphorbia hirta
Euphorbia hirtaEuphorbia hirta12 recordsJuan Carlos Fonseca Mata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Colombian waxweed
Colombian waxweedCuphea carthagenensis11 recordsBob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth! · CC BY-SA 2.0
Spreading windmill grass
Spreading windmill grassChloris divaricata11 recordsMark Marathon · CC BY-SA 4.0
Oceanblue Morning Glory
Oceanblue Morning GloryIpomoea indica10 recordsPaulo rsmenezes · CC BY-SA 3.0 br
American black nightshade
American black nightshadeSolanum americanum10 recordsJuan Carlos Fonseca Mata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bittervine
BittervineMikania micrantha10 recordsVengolis · CC BY 4.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

82out of 100

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

  • 83%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 346Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 249 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in February and in December.

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

  1. Jan17°10°64 mm
  2. Feb19°11°58 mm
  3. Mar21°12°79 mm
  4. Apr24°15°97 mm
  5. May26°18°229 mm
  6. Jun26°20°269 mm
  7. Jul27°20°236 mm
  8. Aug26°20°337 mm
  9. Sep25°19°266 mm
  10. Oct23°16°105 mm
  11. Nov21°14°83 mm
  12. Dec18°11°53 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Fuyuan National Forest Recreation Area.

Forest in Hualien County

Fuyuan National Forest Recreation Area is a forest in Taiwan, 249 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 83% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

346 species have been recorded around it: 140 plants, 0 fungi, 190 birds and 16 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Hairy beggarticks, White leadtree and Bluemink.

The best time to walk is in February and in December.

2025 FuYuan Bao-an Temple a
Taiwankengo · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • 孟公園農場露營區campsite · 4.3 km · 2 within 10 km
  • 靜廬花園民宿place to stay · 3.0 km · 14 within 10 km
  • Hualien Chiashan Airport (HUN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 55 km in a straight lineCar hire in HualienDiscover 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.

Fuyuan National Forest Recreation Area 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 km千里步道花蓮山線
  • 3viewpoints within 5 kmSky Crevice
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 km孟公園農場露營區
  • 14places to stay within 10 km靜廬花園民宿, 石頭屋民宿, 糖廠日式木屋旅館 and 11 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts 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 Fuyuan National Forest Recreation Area.

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.

Peakyas124 mountains within 25 km
Danda Mountain3,340 m · 16 kmNeilinger Mountain3,275 m · 18 kmKashibanan Mountain3,256 m · 22 kmDuanleng Dongshan3,286 m · 23 kmMashi Mountain3,443 m · 23 kmDuanleng Xishan3,287 m · 23 kmTiannankelan Shan3,398 m · 24 kmWangyai Shan3,301 m · 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Taiwan Island35,883 km²

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Fuyuan National Park Lee, Yan-Nian IMG 2214 WDPA 555593997
Yannian Lee · CC BY 4.0
TRA FuYuan Station
SElefant · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Fuyuan National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 346Species

Aowanda National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 45 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 395Species

See the guide

Xitou Nature Education Area

Taiwan · 59 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 859Species

See the guide

Huisun Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 65 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 677Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q10954454) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species33,889 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, Islandyas

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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