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Hîrbovăț Forest

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72% trees around it and 137 species recorded.

54Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km72%
  • wild within 10 km45%
  • species recorded137
  • Altitude128 m

The forest around

72% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 68%Grassland 7%Water 0%Cropland 24%Built-up 0%Trees 28%Grassland 17%Wetland 0%Water 4%Cropland 46%Built-up 5%Trees 20%Grassland 15%Wetland 0%Water 2%Cropland 51%Built-up 11%72%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km68%
  • 3–6 km28%
  • 6–10 km20%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees68%
  • Grassland7%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland24%
  • 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

137 species recorded.

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

Broomleaf toadflax
Broomleaf toadflaxLinaria genistifolia2 recordsRadio Tonreg from Vienna, Austria · CC BY 2.0
Mediterranean Moon CarrotSeseli tortuosum2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

54out of 100

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

  • 72%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 45%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 137Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 128 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan0°-7°43 mm
  2. Feb3°-6°33 mm
  3. Mar9°-1°37 mm
  4. Apr16°4°35 mm
  5. May23°11°50 mm
  6. Jun28°16°66 mm
  7. Jul31°18°56 mm
  8. Aug31°17°34 mm
  9. Sep24°12°39 mm
  10. Oct16°5°43 mm
  11. Nov8°0°42 mm
  12. Dec2°-5°39 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hîrbovăț Forest.

Landscape reserve of Moldova

Hîrbovăț Forest is a forest in Moldova.

Seen from space, 72% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 45% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

137 species have been recorded around it: 2 plants, 0 fungi, 133 birds and 2 mammals.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Вид на Хырбовэцкий лес
IurieSvet · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Hîrbovăț ForestGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Hîrbovăț ForestBooking.comSee prices Car hire at ODS airport (Odesa)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Hîrbovăț 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

  • 3shelters and huts within 6 kmБомбоубежище
  • 14campsites within 10 kmTabăra pentru Copii „Hîrbovăț” (abandonată), ООО "Лобус", АГСК 34 and 11 more
  • 10places to stay within 10 kmLa Popas, Бильярдный клуб, Руссу-Криворученко-Шестаченко Толька and 7 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks 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 Hîrbovăț 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.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lake Salas2.7 km² · 5.3 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.

MD.AN.Hîrbovăț - Biserica „Sf. Nicolae” - jun 2025 - 03
Gikü · CC0
MD.AN.Hîrbovăț - Biserica „Sf. Nicolae” - jun 2025 - 05
Gikü · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Hîrbovăț Forest

Moldova

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 45%Wild
  • 137Species

Chișinău Botanical Garden

Moldova · 40 km

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 108Species

See the guide

Oak of Stephen the Great in Cobîlea

Moldova · 123 km

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 43%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 5Species

See the guide

Sofiyivsky Park

Ukraine · 219 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 37%Wild
  • 232Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4153186) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,963 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 atlasesLakeyas

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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