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Harenna Forest

Sabine's Sunbird · CC BY-SA 4.0

77% trees around it and 15 species recorded.

67Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km77%
  • wild within 10 km95%
  • species recorded15
  • Altitude1,834 m

The forest around

77% 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 85%Shrubland 3%Grassland 4%Cropland 8%Trees 76%Shrubland 1%Grassland 14%Cropland 8%Built-up 1%Trees 87%Shrubland 1%Grassland 6%Cropland 6%Trees 92%Shrubland 2%Grassland 3%Cropland 4%77%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km85%
  • 1–3 km76%
  • 3–6 km87%
  • 6–10 km92%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees76%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland14%
  • Cropland8%
  • Built-up1%

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

15 species recorded.

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

White-cheeked Turaco
White-cheeked TuracoTauraco leucotis2 recordsDoug Janson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow-fronted Parrot
Yellow-fronted ParrotPoicephalus flavifrons2 recordsPoicephalus_flavifrons_-Ethiopia-6.jpg : Alastair Rae from London, United Kingdom derivati · CC BY-SA 2.0
Hooded VultureCR
Hooded VultureNecrosyrtes monachus2 recordsCharles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Bulbul
Common BulbulPycnonotus barbatus2 recordsUlas koksal1 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blue Saw-wing
Blue Saw-wingPsalidoprocne pristoptera2 recordsMartin P Goodey · CC BY-SA 2.0
African Dusky Flycatcher
African Dusky FlycatcherMuscicapa adusta2 recordsBecky Matsubara from El Sobrante, California · CC BY 2.0
Rüppell's Robin-Chat
Rüppell's Robin-ChatCossypha semirufa2 recordsKrisMaes · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Tawny-flanked PriniaPrinia subflava2 recordsFrancesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0
Baglafecht Weaver
Baglafecht WeaverPloceus baglafecht2 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hadada
HadadaBostrychia hagedash2 recordsDiego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Speckled Pigeon
Speckled PigeonColumba guinea2 recordsLip Kee Yap from Singapore, Republic of Singapore · CC BY-SA 2.0
Abyssinian Thrush
Abyssinian ThrushTurdus abyssinicus2 recordsChristiaan Kooyman · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

67out of 100

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

  • 77%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 95%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 15Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,834 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in July and in December.

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

  1. Jan24°10°20 mm
  2. Feb26°10°36 mm
  3. Mar25°12°96 mm
  4. Apr23°13°276 mm
  5. May22°13°228 mm
  6. Jun22°12°102 mm
  7. Jul21°11°92 mm
  8. Aug21°11°135 mm
  9. Sep22°12°145 mm
  10. Oct21°12°171 mm
  11. Nov22°10°99 mm
  12. Dec22°9°36 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Harenna Forest.

Forest in Ethiopia

Harenna Forest is a forest in Ethiopia, 1,834 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 77% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 95% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

15 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 15 birds and 0 mammals.

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

Harenna Forest and Bale Mountains
Sabine's Sunbird · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Hawassa International Airport (AWA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 114 km in a straight line

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.

Harenna 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

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay 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.

    Photographs

    The forest, as people saw it.

    Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Harenna forest
    Sabine's Sunbird · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Harenna Forest (15704344984)
    Laika ac from UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
    Harenna Forest (15706854623)
    Laika ac from UK · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q12348734) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species112 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

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

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