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Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area

Lord Koxinga · CC BY-SA 3.0

97% trees around it and 303 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyBirds

  • trees within 3 km97%
  • wild within 10 km97%
  • species recorded303
  • Altitude234 m

The forest around

97% 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 95%Bare ground 4%Built-up 2%Trees 98%Grassland 1%Bare ground 0%Built-up 1%Trees 93%Grassland 2%Water 2%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 2%Trees 75%Grassland 2%Water 19%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%97%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km95%
  • 1–3 km98%
  • 3–6 km93%
  • 6–10 km75%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees98%
  • Grassland1%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up1%

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

303 species recorded.

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

Hairy beggarticks
Hairy beggarticksBidens pilosa27 recordsWiki Farazi · CC0
Redflower ragleaf
Redflower ragleafCrassocephalum crepidioides15 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Bittervine
BittervineMikania micrantha15 recordsVengolis · CC BY 4.0
Wavy Bittercress
Wavy BittercressCardamine flexuosa14 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bluemink
BlueminkAgeratum houstonianum14 recordsHarry Alverson · CC BY-SA 2.0
Palmgrass
PalmgrassSetaria palmifolia13 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Buzzy lizzy
Buzzy lizzyImpatiens walleriana13 recordsThegreenj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Erigeron sumatrensis
Erigeron sumatrensisErigeron sumatrensis13 recordsHarry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Oceanblue Morning Glory
Oceanblue Morning GloryIpomoea indica12 recordsPaulo rsmenezes · CC BY-SA 3.0 br
Pink woodsorrel
Pink woodsorrelOxalis debilis10 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Limpleaf fern
Limpleaf fernMicrolepia speluncae9 recordsDavid Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA · CC BY 2.0
White leadtree
White leadtreeLeucaena leucocephala9 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

83out of 100

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

  • 97%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 97%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 303Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 234 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to February.

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

  1. Jan22°19°47 mm
  2. Feb22°20°41 mm
  3. Mar24°21°53 mm
  4. Apr26°23°68 mm
  5. May28°25°176 mm
  6. Jun28°27°259 mm
  7. Jul29°27°290 mm
  8. Aug28°27°398 mm
  9. Sep28°26°260 mm
  10. Oct26°25°93 mm
  11. Nov25°23°72 mm
  12. Dec22°20°47 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area.

Forest in Taitung County, Taiwan

Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area is a forest in Taiwan, 234 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 97% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 97% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

303 species have been recorded around it: 90 plants, 1 fungi, 208 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Hairy beggarticks, Redflower ragleaf and Bittervine.

The best time to walk is from December to February.

2010 07 16800 5744 Beinan Township, Taiwan, Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area, Sculptures in Beinan Township, Retainig walls
Lord Koxinga · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • 野營活動場campsite · 0.3 km · 10 within 10 km
  • 東美大飯店place to stay · 2.6 km · 33 within 10 km
  • Taitungnearest town · 18 km in a straight line
  • Taitung Airport (TTT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 km in a straight lineCar hire in TaitungDiscover 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.

Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area 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 km千里步道台東海線
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 17shelters and huts within 6 km千禧亭, 千鶴亭, 寧靜亭 and 14 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 km知本林道瀑布, 華源觀景台-天空之鏡, 華源海灣觀景點 and 2 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km知本森林國家遊樂區遊客中心
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 km野營活動場, campground, 獵寮 and 7 more
  • 33places to stay within 10 km東美大飯店, 朝陽大飯店, 白玉湯屋 and 30 more
  • 7restaurants 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 Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area.

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.

Peakyas76 mountains within 25 km
Shubajue2,125 m · 12 kmDapu Shan2,239 m · 13 kmBaican Shan2,199 m · 20 kmNanyaobai Shan2,278 m · 21 kmChabu Yan2,152 m · 21 kmPingye Shan2,094 m · 24 kmYaobai Shan2,182 m · 24 kmNorth Dawu Mountain3,092 m · 24 km
Islandyasthe island
Taiwan Island35,883 km²
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Baiyu Waterfall2.9 kmJinfeng Waterfall12 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.

2010 07 17320 5853 Beinan Township, Taiwan, Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area, Walking paths
Lord Koxinga · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area 01
Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Forest View Suspension Bridge, Jhihben 01
Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 303Species

Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 56 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 450Species

See the guide

Kenting National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 84 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 876Species

See the guide

Xitou Nature Education Area

Taiwan · 111 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 859Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q17040889) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species15,474 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, Islandyas, Cascadyas

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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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
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