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Inhotim

Mateus S. Figueiredo · CC BY-SA 4.0

60% trees around it and 366 species recorded.

73Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km60%
  • wild within 10 km92%
  • species recorded366
  • Altitude749 m

The forest around

60% 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 83%Grassland 9%Water 4%Bare ground 3%Cropland 0%Built-up 2%Trees 58%Shrubland 0%Grassland 28%Water 2%Bare ground 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 9%Trees 64%Grassland 26%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 4%Trees 58%Shrubland 1%Grassland 27%Water 3%Bare ground 2%Cropland 3%Built-up 6%60%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km83%
  • 1–3 km58%
  • 3–6 km64%
  • 6–10 km58%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees58%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland28%
  • Water2%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up9%

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

366 species recorded.

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

Aluminium Plant
Aluminium PlantPilea cadierei16 recordsTaken by Fanghong · CC BY-SA 3.0
Punchberry
PunchberryMyrcia splendens6 recordsVojtěch Zavadil · CC BY-SA 4.0
Campomanesia pubescens
Campomanesia pubescensCampomanesia pubescens6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common calabash tree
Common calabash treeCrescentia cujete6 recordsMokkie · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ipomoea procumbens
Ipomoea procumbensIpomoea procumbens6 records[ https://www.flickr.com/people/43216777@N04 Jo�o Medeiros] · CC BY 2.0
Delta maidenhair
Delta maidenhairAdiantum raddianum5 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Achiote
AchioteBixa orellana4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Valamuerto
ValamuertoSenna pendula4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Senna macranthera
Senna macrantheraSenna macranthera4 recordsmauroguanandi · CC BY 2.0
Gaita
GaitaTrichilia pallida4 recordsJardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro; Rodrigues, J. Barbosa (João Barbosa), 1842-1909 · No restrictions
Betencourtia scarlatinaBetencourtia scarlatina6 records
Senna reniformisSenna reniformis6 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

73out of 100

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

  • 60%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 92%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 366Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 749 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to July.

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

  1. Jan27°18°225 mm
  2. Feb27°18°138 mm
  3. Mar27°18°145 mm
  4. Apr27°16°49 mm
  5. May26°13°25 mm
  6. Jun26°12°12 mm
  7. Jul26°12°7 mm
  8. Aug28°13°12 mm
  9. Sep31°15°39 mm
  10. Oct31°17°88 mm
  11. Nov28°18°182 mm
  12. Dec27°18°262 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Inhotim.

Art museum, botanical garden in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Inhotim is an arboretum in Brazil, 749 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 60% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 92% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

366 species have been recorded around it: 191 plants, 0 fungi, 164 birds and 11 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Aluminium Plant, Punchberry and Campomanesia pubescens.

The best time to walk is from May to July.

Campos sur les Bords du Rio das Velhas, Juan Araujo, parte trasera
Mateus S. Figueiredo · 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.

Inhotim 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

  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmRecepção
  • 10car parks within 3 km
  • 12places to stay within 10 kmClara Arte Resort, Pousada Nossa Fazendinha, Pousada Dona Carmita and 9 more
  • 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 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
  • 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 Inhotim.

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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Serra da Calçada25 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Manso River64 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.

Inhotim - panoramio (cropped)
Oswalney Costa Galvã… · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brumadinho Mg Brasil - Inhotim - panoramio
Josue Marinho · CC BY 3.0
Edgard de Souza - Dor de Cabeça (Inhotim)
josep from BHz, Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Inhotim

Brazil

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 366Species

Passa Quatro National Forest

Brazil · 263 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 374Species

See the guide

Tijuca Forest

Brazil · 331 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 1,485Species

See the guide

Sítio Roberto Burle Marx

Brazil · 330 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 60Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q478245) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,880 open records within 2 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, 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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