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Île de la Barthelasse

Véronique PAGNIER · Public domain

42% trees around it and 1,302 species recorded.

55Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km42%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded1,302

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 62%Shrubland 1%Grassland 14%Bare ground 0%Cropland 20%Built-up 2%Trees 40%Shrubland 1%Grassland 7%Water 12%Bare ground 0%Cropland 12%Built-up 27%Trees 40%Shrubland 2%Grassland 9%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 7%Built-up 38%Trees 40%Shrubland 8%Grassland 14%Water 3%Bare ground 1%Cropland 17%Built-up 18%42%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km62%
  • 1–3 km40%
  • 3–6 km40%
  • 6–10 km40%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees40%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland7%
  • Water12%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland12%
  • Built-up27%

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

1,302 species recorded.

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

Himantoglossum robertianum
Himantoglossum robertianumHimantoglossum robertianum419 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Early spider-orchid
Early spider-orchidOphrys sphegodes309 recordsVelela · CC BY 2.5
Laurustinus
LaurustinusViburnum tinus308 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Desert false indigo
Desert false indigoAmorpha fruticosa275 recordsDalgial · CC BY-SA 3.0
Floating primrose-willow
Floating primrose-willowLudwigia peploides248 recordsPère Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna233 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cyperus sedge
Cyperus sedgeCarex pseudocyperus216 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 08:04, 26 July 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
White Poplar
White PoplarPopulus alba182 recordsJakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 3.0
Giant Reed
Giant ReedArundo donax181 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Holm Oak
Holm OakQuercus ilex150 recordsFritz Geller-Grimm · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pomegranate
PomegranatePunica granatum148 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Narrow-leafed Ash
Narrow-leafed AshFraxinus angustifolia144 recordsJavier martin · 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.

55out 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
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,302Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

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. Jan8°0°49 mm
  2. Feb10°0°40 mm
  3. Mar14°3°44 mm
  4. Apr18°6°56 mm
  5. May22°10°56 mm
  6. Jun28°15°37 mm
  7. Jul32°18°25 mm
  8. Aug31°17°31 mm
  9. Sep25°13°62 mm
  10. Oct20°9°85 mm
  11. Nov13°4°98 mm
  12. Dec9°1°52 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Île de la Barthelasse.

Island on the Rhône in Vaucluse, France

Île de la Barthelasse is a forest in France.

Seen from space, 42% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,302 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 17 fungi, 241 birds and 44 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Himantoglossum robertianum, Early spider-orchid and Laurustinus.

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

Barthelas
Véronique PAGNIER · Public domain

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.

Île de la Barthelasse 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmDe Saint-Étienne au Grau-du-Roi, Chartreuse boucle 1
  • 15named and notable trees within 6 kmChêne, Ignifus, Chêne à feuille de Châtaignier and 12 more
  • 54picnic sites within 4 km
  • 320shelters and huts within 6 kmdepose-minute and 319 more
  • 17viewpoints within 5 kmPanorama du Rocher des Doms and 16 more
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmOffice de Tourisme, Service d'Assistance Voyageur Handicapé
  • 400car parks within 3 km
  • 14campsites within 10 kmLODGES & NATURE - Les Deux Rhône, Parc des Libertés, Campéole L'ile des Papes and 11 more
  • 143places to stay within 10 kmLe patio Carrèterie, Hôtel de l'Atelier, La Livrée du Palais and 140 more
  • 214restaurants 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 Île de la Barthelasse.

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.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
colline de Piécaud12 kmLa Montagnette16 kmColline Saint Eutrope (Orange, Vaucluse)18 kmColline St Antoine20 kmMont Gaussier306 m · 23 kmLa Caume387 m · 24 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Caves of Thouzon12 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Rhône812 km · 1,780 m³/sOuvèze93 km · 25 m³/s

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Avignon - Jardin des Doms (Rocher des Doms) - View WNW on ramparts, Boulevard de la Ligne, Rhône river bank & Pont Saint-Bénézet (Pont d'Avignon) 1177-85
Txllxt TxllxT · CC BY-SA 4.0
Avignon - Île de la Barthelasse - Chemin des Berges - Panorama View over the river Rhône along Pont Edouard Daladier on Pont Saint Bénézet (Pont d'Avignon), Jardin des doms, Avignon cathedral & Palais des Papes 01
Txllxt TxllxT · CC BY-SA 4.0
Activité sur l'¨ïle de la Barthelasse et l'île Piot à proximité d'Avignon
Vi..Cult... · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Île de la Barthelasse

France

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 1,302Species

Risoux

Switzerland · 305 km

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 1,173Species

See the guide

Fageda d'en Jordà

Spain · 277 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 645Species

See the guide

Jardin Exotique de Monaco

Monaco · 208 km

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 268Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q292378) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species66,266 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, Cavernyas, Riveryas

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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