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Kouratier

Aboubacarkhoraa · CC BY-SA 4.0

47% trees around it and 75 species recorded.

58Forestyas Score

Notable treeMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km47%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded75
  • Altitude1,209 m

The forest around

47% 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 38%Grassland 44%Cropland 2%Built-up 17%Trees 48%Shrubland 2%Grassland 39%Water 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 8%Trees 58%Shrubland 3%Grassland 34%Cropland 4%Built-up 1%Trees 61%Shrubland 2%Grassland 32%Cropland 5%Built-up 1%47%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km38%
  • 1–3 km48%
  • 3–6 km58%
  • 6–10 km61%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees48%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland39%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up8%

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

75 species recorded.

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

Eulophia guineensis
Eulophia guineensisEulophia guineensis3 recordsThe original uploader was JoJan at English Wikipedia . · Attribution
Solanum aculeatissimum
Solanum aculeatissimumSolanum aculeatissimum2 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Euphorbia drupifera
Euphorbia drupiferaEuphorbia drupifera2 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eriocaulon remotumEriocaulon remotum4 records
Schwenckia americanaSchwenckia americana4 records
VU
Zanthoxylum chevalieriZanthoxylum chevalieri3 records
Geophila obvallataGeophila obvallata3 records
Rhipidoglossum brachycerasRhipidoglossum brachyceras2 records
Disperis thomensisDisperis thomensis2 records
Habenaria genuflexaHabenaria genuflexa2 records
Leptactina senegambicaLeptactina senegambica2 records
Apodostigma pallensApodostigma pallens2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

58out of 100

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

  • 47%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 75Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,209 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from November to January.

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

  1. Jan35°18°2 mm
  2. Feb37°20°4 mm
  3. Mar38°21°4 mm
  4. Apr37°22°29 mm
  5. May34°22°143 mm
  6. Jun29°21°307 mm
  7. Jul27°20°559 mm
  8. Aug26°20°659 mm
  9. Sep27°20°407 mm
  10. Oct28°20°150 mm
  11. Nov29°19°28 mm
  12. Dec32°17°1 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kouratier.

Kouratier is a notable tree in Guinea, 1,209 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 47% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

75 species have been recorded around it: 12 plants, 0 fungi, 63 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eulophia guineensis, Solanum aculeatissimum and Euphorbia drupifera.

The best time to walk is from November to January.

Kouratier
Aboubacarkhoraa · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Djouma Fleurcampsite · 9.1 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Hotel Du Fouta SIBplace to stay · 0.1 km · 6 within 10 km
  • Dalabanearest town · 1.8 km in a straight line
  • Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (CKY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 192 km in a straight line

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.

Kouratier 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmKouratier
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmVue sur Dalaba centre, Terrasse de l'hôtel du Fouta
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmBureau ALDET
  • 1campsites within 10 kmDjouma Fleur
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmHotel Du Fouta SIB, Auberge Seydi II, Centre d'accueil Notre-Dame and 3 more
  • 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • car parks 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 Kouratier.

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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Mont Tinka5.4 kmMont Kavendou7.2 kmMont Banga10 kmMont Fokoumba24 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
chute de kala14 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.

Kouratier 01
Aboubacarkhoraa · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Kouratier

Guinea

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 75Species

Conakry Botanical Garden

Guinea · 202 km

  • 38Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 91Species

See the guide

Cotton Tree

Sierra Leone · 267 km

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 15Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q109589178) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species382 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, 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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