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Horsh Ehden

LBM1948 · CC BY-SA 4.0

36% trees around it and 149 species recorded.

57Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km36%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded149
  • Altitude1,487 m

The forest around

36% 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 79%Shrubland 8%Grassland 13%Trees 31%Shrubland 8%Grassland 57%Bare ground 2%Built-up 3%Trees 32%Shrubland 5%Grassland 56%Bare ground 4%Cropland 0%Built-up 4%Trees 43%Shrubland 5%Grassland 42%Bare ground 6%Cropland 0%Built-up 4%36%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km79%
  • 1–3 km31%
  • 3–6 km32%
  • 6–10 km43%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees31%
  • Shrubland8%
  • Grassland57%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up3%

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

149 species recorded.

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

Aleppo oak
Aleppo oakQuercus infectoria98 recordsGideon Pisanty ( Gidip ) · CC BY 3.0
Mediterranean Cypress
Mediterranean CypressCupressus sempervirens76 recordsTaoujouti Abdelmouhaïmen · CC BY-SA 4.0
Balkan maple
Balkan mapleAcer hyrcanum51 recordsDaderot · CC0
Kermes Oak
Kermes OakQuercus coccifera43 recordsJavier martin · Public domain
Cedar of LebanonVU
Cedar of LebanonCedrus libani41 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greek Juniper
Greek JuniperJuniperus excelsa39 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cilician FirNT
Cilician FirAbies cilicica30 recordsElie plus · CC BY 3.0
Sessile Oak
Sessile OakQuercus petraea28 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
Pyrus syriaca
Pyrus syriacaPyrus syriaca28 recordsGideon Pisanty ( Gidip ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Storax
StoraxStyrax officinalis23 recordsאיתן פרמן · CC BY 3.0
Manna Ash
Manna AshFraxinus ornus18 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0
Arbutus andrachne
Arbutus andrachneArbutus andrachne17 recordsHectonichus · 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.

57out of 100

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

  • 36%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 149Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,487 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in November.

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

  1. Jan11°2°91 mm
  2. Feb12°2°68 mm
  3. Mar16°5°44 mm
  4. Apr20°8°24 mm
  5. May25°12°12 mm
  6. Jun30°15°4 mm
  7. Jul32°18°1 mm
  8. Aug32°18°1 mm
  9. Sep29°16°9 mm
  10. Oct25°13°23 mm
  11. Nov18°7°46 mm
  12. Dec13°4°71 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Horsh Ehden.

Nature reserve in Lebanon

Horsh Ehden is a forest in Lebanon, 1,487 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 36% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

149 species have been recorded around it: 50 plants, 2 fungi, 97 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Aleppo oak, Mediterranean Cypress and Balkan maple.

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

Horsh Ehden (2001) 03
LBM1948 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Blatacampsite · 2.2 km · 4 within 10 km
  • La Reserveplace to stay · 0.4 km · 22 within 10 km
  • Bsharrinearest town · 7.2 km in a straight line
  • Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (BEY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 71 km in a straight lineCar hire at BEY airport (Beirut)Discover 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.

Horsh Ehden 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmSentier de Montagne du Liban, Lebanon Mountain Trail
  • 4campsites within 10 kmBlata, Место под 2-3 палатки, The Lake House and 1 more
  • 22places to stay within 10 kmLa Reserve, Snoobra 1, Snoobra 2 and 19 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 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

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Horsh Ehden.

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.

Peakyas232 mountains within 25 km
Sen Ehden2.0 kmQarn Sreij9.7 kmQurnat as Sawda'3,088 m · 12 kmJabal Tourbol16 kmQornet Aakfor19 kmJabal Tartej20 kmDahr ez Zaatar22 kmDahr el Ouata22 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Qurnat as Sawda'3,088 m · 12 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Baatara gorge waterfall19 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.

Ehden Nature Reserve's entrance
Michelsawan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ehden 6-5-2011
Sadekjaber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Horsh Ehden (2001) 01
LBM1948 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Horsh Ehden

Lebanon

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 36%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 149Species

Sisters Olive Trees of Noah

Lebanon · 19 km

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 3Species

See the guide

Cedars of God

Lebanon · 10 km

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 6%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 123Species

See the guide

Birya forest

Israel · 153 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 288Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3936486) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,563 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, Viewyas, 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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