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Gourougou forest

Oumaima Loudini · CC BY-SA 4.0

34% trees around it and 94 species recorded.

45Forestyas Score

ForestFungi

  • trees within 3 km34%
  • wild within 10 km75%
  • species recorded94
  • Altitude864 m

The forest around

34% 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 53%Shrubland 23%Grassland 24%Trees 32%Shrubland 15%Grassland 53%Cropland 1%Trees 16%Shrubland 12%Grassland 50%Bare ground 1%Cropland 16%Built-up 4%Trees 8%Shrubland 5%Grassland 38%Water 15%Bare ground 3%Cropland 13%Built-up 18%34%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km53%
  • 1–3 km32%
  • 3–6 km16%
  • 6–10 km8%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees32%
  • Shrubland15%
  • Grassland53%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up0%

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

94 species recorded.

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

Erodium chium
Erodium chiumErodium chium3 recordsYan Wong from Oxford · CC BY 2.0
Asplenium hemionitis
Asplenium hemionitisAsplenium hemionitis3 recordsIxitixel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Colchicum filifolium
Colchicum filifoliumColchicum filifolium2 recordsRubenbiologo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Friar's cowl
Friar's cowlArisarum vulgare2 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Geranium atlanticum
Geranium atlanticumGeranium atlanticum2 recordsCosson, E. · Public domain
Dyer's rocket
Dyer's rocketReseda luteola2 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Avena erianthaAvena eriantha4 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

45out of 100

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

  • 34%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 75%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 94Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 864 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from February to March and from November to December.

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

  1. Jan16°6°49 mm
  2. Feb17°6°39 mm
  3. Mar20°8°54 mm
  4. Apr22°10°52 mm
  5. May25°13°34 mm
  6. Jun30°17°8 mm
  7. Jul33°20°6 mm
  8. Aug33°21°17 mm
  9. Sep29°18°33 mm
  10. Oct25°14°62 mm
  11. Nov20°10°68 mm
  12. Dec17°7°42 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Gourougou forest.

Coastal forest in Morocco

Gourougou forest is a forest in Morocco, 864 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 34% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 75% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

94 species have been recorded around it: 7 plants, 82 fungi, 5 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Erodium chium, Asplenium hemionitis and Colchicum filifolium.

The best time to walk is from February to March and from November to December.

Thazuda Castle and Mosque Arrahmane in Gourougou mountain
Oumaima Loudini · 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.

Gourougou forest 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

  • 3viewpoints within 5 kmPanorama Gourgou, Mirador
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 33places to stay within 10 kmHotel Douche, Antequera, La Sevillana and 30 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 km
  • restaurants 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 Gourougou forest.

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.

Peakyas77 mountains within 25 km
Gourougou892 m · this placeJebel Tazoud2.6 kmJebel Ouichane12 kmAdrar Ouissane13 kmJebel Toumiat16 kmJebel Harcha18 kmBoû Ziza22 kmAit Iouatmoune24 km
Coastya3 beaches within 10 km
Playa de los Cárabos8.5 kmPlaya de la Hípica8.5 kmPlaya de San Lorenzo8.9 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Cape Three Forks12 species · 23 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Conventico Caves10 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Gourougou forest

Morocco

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 94Species

Jerada

Morocco · 127 km

  • 25Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • —Species

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Cèdre Gouraud

Morocco · 281 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 106Species

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Gibraltar Botanic Gardens

United Kingdom · 236 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 5%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 427Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q20396118) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,771 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, Birdyas, Cavernyas

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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