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Chile Chile arboretum

Jardín Botánico Nacional de Viña del Mar

3BRBS · CC BY-SA 3.0

32% trees around it and 176 species recorded.

50Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km32%
  • wild within 10 km76%
  • species recorded176

The forest around

32% 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 52%Shrubland 24%Grassland 4%Built-up 20%Trees 30%Shrubland 31%Grassland 6%Bare ground 1%Built-up 33%Trees 30%Shrubland 27%Grassland 8%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 33%Trees 31%Shrubland 23%Grassland 12%Water 12%Bare ground 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 19%32%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km52%
  • 1–3 km30%
  • 3–6 km30%
  • 6–10 km31%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees30%
  • Shrubland31%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up33%

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

176 species recorded.

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

California poppy
California poppyEschscholzia californica14 recordsKaldari · CC0
Greater Periwinkle
Greater PeriwinkleVinca major10 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Alstroemeria ligtu
Alstroemeria ligtuAlstroemeria ligtu7 recordsBruno Avilez · CC BY 4.0
Silver Wattle
Silver WattleAcacia dealbata7 recordsDonald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY 2.0
Miersia chilensis
Miersia chilensisMiersia chilensis7 recordsPato Novoa · CC BY 2.0
Chile cocopalm
Chile cocopalmJubaea chilensis5 recordsphoto taken by SteffenMP ( de:Benutzer:SteffenMP ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Conanthera campanulata
Conanthera campanulataConanthera campanulata5 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Chilean jessamine
Chilean jessamineCestrum parqui5 recordsJM92 · CC BY 3.0
Chilean gunnera
Chilean gunneraGunnera tinctoria5 recordsMargaret Donald · CC BY-SA 2.0
Castor oil plant
Castor oil plantRicinus communis5 recordsNolege · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nasturtium
NasturtiumTropaeolum majus4 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · Public domain
Soapbark
SoapbarkQuillaja saponaria4 recordspenarc · CC BY-SA 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.

50out of 100

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

  • 32%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 76%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 176Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from September to October.

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

  1. Jan28°13°2 mm
  2. Feb27°13°2 mm
  3. Mar26°12°4 mm
  4. Apr22°10°11 mm
  5. May18°8°55 mm
  6. Jun16°7°71 mm
  7. Jul15°6°58 mm
  8. Aug16°6°50 mm
  9. Sep18°6°15 mm
  10. Oct21°8°11 mm
  11. Nov24°10°6 mm
  12. Dec26°11°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 Nacional de Viña del Mar.

Jardín Botánico Nacional de Viña del Mar is an arboretum in Chile.

Seen from space, 32% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 76% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

176 species have been recorded around it: 84 plants, 2 fungi, 90 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: California poppy, Greater Periwinkle and Alstroemeria ligtu.

The best time to walk is from September to October.

Flores en el Jardín Botánico de Viña del Mar 02
3BRBS · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Los Árboles Nativoscampsite · 3.9 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Casazulplace to stay · 3.0 km · 136 within 10 km
  • Viña del Marnearest town · 5.2 km in a straight line
  • Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 77 km in a straight lineCar hire at SCL airport (Santiago)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 Nacional de Viña del Mar 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

  • 18named and notable trees within 6 kmFicus elastica, Araucaria araucana, Phoenix canariensis and 15 more
  • 7picnic sites within 4 kmPicnic frío, Área Los Hornillos and 5 more
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 17viewpoints within 5 kmMirador Padre Hurtado, Laurita Vicuña 92, Mirador and 14 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmOficina de Información Turística
  • 35car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmLos Árboles Nativos
  • 136places to stay within 10 kmCasazul, Ensueño, Hotel Blest Gana and 133 more
  • 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Nacional de Viña del Mar.

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.

Peakyas51 mountains within 25 km
Morro de Piedra5.4 kmCerro Los Placeres8.7 kmBarón Hill9.1 kmPanteón Hill12 kmAlto del Puerto12 kmCerro Alegre12 kmHills of Valparaíso14 kmCerro Mauco725 m · 19 km
Coastya3 beaches within 10 km
Playa Acapulco6.1 kmCaleta Abarca6.8 kmCaleta Osas7.5 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Embalse las Cenizas0.2 km² · 7.7 kmPeñuelas Lake6.0 km² · 12 kmLos Aromos Dam1.5 km² · 15 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.

Flores en el Jardín Botánico de Viña del Mar 01
3BRBS · CC BY-SA 3.0
Adult Spot-flanked Gallinule
Joshua Stone · CC BY-SA 3.0
Araucarias-jbn
Comasypunto · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Jardín Botánico Nacional de Viña del Mar

Chile

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 32%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 176Species

Jardín Botánico Chagual

Chile · 92 km

  • 35Forestyas Score
  • 25%Trees
  • 42%Wild
  • 142Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5926785) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species9,122 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, Lakeyas

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

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