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Jardín botánico de Plantas Medicinales de Lima

Esly Espinoza · CC BY-SA 4.0

2% trees around it and 70 species recorded.

22Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km2%
  • wild within 10 km31%
  • species recorded70
  • Altitude121 m

The forest around

2% 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 8%Built-up 92%Trees 2%Grassland 0%Bare ground 0%Built-up 98%Trees 2%Shrubland 0%Grassland 1%Water 10%Bare ground 5%Built-up 82%Trees 1%Shrubland 0%Grassland 1%Water 27%Bare ground 11%Built-up 59%2%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km8%
  • 1–3 km2%
  • 3–6 km2%
  • 6–10 km1%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees2%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up98%

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

70 species recorded.

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

Peanut
PeanutArachis hypogaea20 recordsMunkaila Sulemana · CC BY-SA 4.0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens6 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Bitter Cassava
Bitter CassavaManihot esculenta3 recordsVpuipV · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sweet alyssum
Sweet alyssumLobularia maritima3 recordsJoanbanjo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stickpea
StickpeaCalliandra haematocephala2 recordsGreg Hume · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cape leadwort
Cape leadwortPlumbago auriculata2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Calvin Teo assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye
Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeyeSphagneticola trilobata2 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cacao
CacaoTheobroma cacao2 recordsUSAID Digital Development · CC BY 2.0
Templetree
TempletreePlumeria rubra2 recordsZachi Evenor and MathKnight · CC BY 2.0
Bloodflower
BloodflowerAsclepias curassavica2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major2 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Spanish CedarVU
Spanish CedarCedrela odorata2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

22out of 100

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

  • 2%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 31%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 70Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 121 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to September.

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

  1. Jan23°16°3 mm
  2. Feb23°17°5 mm
  3. Mar23°17°4 mm
  4. Apr23°16°1 mm
  5. May22°14°1 mm
  6. Jun22°13°1 mm
  7. Jul21°12°1 mm
  8. Aug21°13°1 mm
  9. Sep22°13°1 mm
  10. Oct21°14°1 mm
  11. Nov22°14°2 mm
  12. Dec22°15°3 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Jardín botánico de Plantas Medicinales de Lima.

Botanical garden in Lima, Peru

Jardín botánico de Plantas Medicinales de Lima is an arboretum in Peru.

Seen from space, 2% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 31% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

70 species have been recorded around it: 17 plants, 0 fungi, 53 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Peanut, White Clover and Bitter Cassava.

The best time to walk is from May to September.

Planta de Aguaymanto en el Jardín Botánico de Lima
Esly Espinoza · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Camping Overlander and Airbnb El Tip Viajerocampsite · 7.5 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Thunderbird carreraplace to stay · 1.2 km · 1,068 within 10 km
  • Jesus Marianearest town · 0.6 km in a straight line
  • Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 km in a straight lineCar hire at LIM airport (Lima)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.

Jardín botánico de Plantas Medicinales de Lima 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmAlameda 28 de Julio
  • 44named and notable trees within 6 kmTupac and 43 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 10shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 16viewpoints within 5 kmCrossroads calles peatonales and 15 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmOf. Información Turística, South American Explorers Lima Clubhouse, Information Touristica and 1 more
  • 567car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmCamping Overlander and Airbnb El Tip Viajero
  • 1,068places to stay within 10 kmThunderbird carrera, Casa Yllika, Peru Star and 1,065 more
  • 877restaurants 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 Jardín botánico de Plantas Medicinales de Lima.

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.

Peakyas102 mountains within 25 km
Cerro Agustino485 m · 4.3 kmCerro San Cristóbal (Perú)392 m · 5.1 kmCerro Marcavilca281 m · 12 kmMorro Solar100 m · 12 kmCerro Pro16 kmCerro Pinpón16 kmCerro Retamal18 kmUncatupi Caparicaya861 m · 24 km
Coastya13 beaches within 10 km
Playa Tres Picos4.6 kmMalecón La Marina4.8 kmMalecón Cisneros5.4 kmPlaya La Pampilla5.6 kmPlaya Miraflores5.7 kmPlaya Estrella6.8 kmPlaya Cascadas7.5 kmPlaya Barranco8.5 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Morro Solar PlanetariumBortle 8 · 11 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge199 species · 17 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Chivateros14 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.

Planta de Mucura Macho en el Jardín Botánico de Lima
Esly Espinoza · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Jardín botánico de Plantas Medicinales de Lima

Peru

  • 22Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 31%Wild
  • 70Species

Parque de las Leyendas

Peru · 5 km

  • 23Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 46%Wild
  • 94Species

See the guide

Lima Botanical Garden

Peru · 3 km

  • 21Forestyas Score
  • 1%Trees
  • 25%Wild
  • 61Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q122203810) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species21,357 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, Coastya, Darkskyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas

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

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