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Humaitá National Forest

Gabriela Cavalcante · CC BY-SA 4.0

42% trees around it and 861 species recorded.

68Forestyas Score

ForestWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km42%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded861
  • Altitude59 m

The forest around

42% 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 29%Grassland 6%Water 42%Bare ground 0%Built-up 23%Trees 44%Grassland 19%Water 23%Bare ground 0%Built-up 14%Trees 58%Grassland 33%Water 9%Bare ground 0%Trees 66%Grassland 26%Water 8%Built-up 0%42%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km29%
  • 1–3 km44%
  • 3–6 km58%
  • 6–10 km66%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees44%
  • Grassland19%
  • Water23%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up14%

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

861 species recorded.

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

Richeria grandis
Richeria grandisRicheria grandis11 recordsAlex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil · CC BY 2.0
Punchberry
PunchberryMyrcia splendens7 recordsVojtěch Zavadil · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cyclanthus bipartitus
Cyclanthus bipartitusCyclanthus bipartitus6 recordsE.F. Poeppig (d. 1868) · Public domain
Flamevine
FlamevinePyrostegia venusta6 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Deguelia angulataDeguelia angulata12 records
Bellucia acutataBellucia acutata9 records
Codonanthopsis uleiCodonanthopsis ulei8 records
Zanthoxylum compactumZanthoxylum compactum8 records
Deguelia utilisDeguelia utilis8 records
Ryania mansoanaRyania mansoana8 records
Hymenopus heteromorphusHymenopus heteromorphus7 records
Anthurium plowmaniiAnthurium plowmanii6 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

68out of 100

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

  • 42%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 861Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 59 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan28°23°268 mm
  2. Feb28°23°243 mm
  3. Mar28°23°248 mm
  4. Apr29°23°184 mm
  5. May29°23°107 mm
  6. Jun29°22°44 mm
  7. Jul30°22°23 mm
  8. Aug33°23°34 mm
  9. Sep33°24°83 mm
  10. Oct32°24°141 mm
  11. Nov31°24°154 mm
  12. Dec29°23°233 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Humaitá National Forest.

Federal level Humaitá National Forest, located in Humaitá (AM)

Humaitá National Forest is a forest in Brazil.

Seen from space, 42% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

861 species have been recorded around it: 533 plants, 0 fungi, 324 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Richeria grandis, Punchberry and Cyclanthus bipartitus.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

As margens do Rio Humaitá - AC
Gabriela Cavalcante · 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.

Humaitá National 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

  • 1shelters and huts within 6 kmCoreto da Matriz
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmHumaita Quality Hotel, Hotel Macedonia, Anex Brasil and 1 more
  • 2restaurants 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
  • campsites within 10 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 Humaitá National 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
Lago Paraíso20 km² · 14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Madeira River1,450 km · 31,200 m³/sDos Marmelos RiverManicoré RiverPrêto do Igapó-Açu River

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Humaitá - rio madeira - panoramio
James Martins · CC BY 3.0
Madeira Rainforest river - panoramio (8)
James Martins · CC BY 3.0
Samaúma, Árvore centenária e sagrada
Gabriela Cavalcante · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Humaitá National Forest

Brazil

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 861Species

Iquiri National Forest

Brazil · 357 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q10282870) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species8,576 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, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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