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Honduras Honduras arboretum

Lancetilla Botanical Garden

Asit K. Ghosh Thaumaturgist · CC BY-SA 3.0

96% trees around it and 602 species recorded.

89Forestyas Score

ArboretumDense canopyBirds

  • trees within 3 km96%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded602
  • Altitude92 m

The forest around

96% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 96%Grassland 4%Trees 79%Grassland 13%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 5%Trees 68%Mangroves 0%Grassland 14%Wetland 1%Water 16%Bare ground 0%Built-up 1%96%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km96%
  • 3–6 km79%
  • 6–10 km68%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees96%
  • Mangroves0%
  • Grassland4%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

602 species recorded.

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

Selaginella umbrosa
Selaginella umbrosaSelaginella umbrosa13 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Philodendron smithii
Philodendron smithiiPhilodendron smithii11 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Casearia corymbosa
Casearia corymbosaCasearia corymbosa10 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Clubmoss snakefern
Clubmoss snakefernMicrogramma lycopodioides9 recordsPhoto by David J. Stang · CC BY-SA 4.0
Broadleaf maidenhair
Broadleaf maidenhairAdiantum latifolium9 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 4.0
Anthurium lancetillenseAnthurium lancetillense45 records
Tectaria mexicanaTectaria mexicana21 records
Philodendron jodavisianumPhilodendron jodavisianum14 records
Goeppertia marantifoliaGoeppertia marantifolia12 records
Dieffenbachia standleyiDieffenbachia standleyi10 records
Hamelia longipesHamelia longipes9 records
Angelica treeDendropanax arboreus9 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

89out of 100

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

  • 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 602Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 92 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. Jan25°18°137 mm
  2. Feb27°19°87 mm
  3. Mar29°19°68 mm
  4. Apr31°21°40 mm
  5. May31°22°101 mm
  6. Jun30°22°160 mm
  7. Jul29°22°137 mm
  8. Aug30°22°142 mm
  9. Sep29°22°169 mm
  10. Oct28°22°217 mm
  11. Nov26°20°218 mm
  12. Dec25°19°146 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lancetilla Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden

Lancetilla Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Honduras.

Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

602 species have been recorded around it: 214 plants, 38 fungi, 340 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Selaginella umbrosa, Philodendron smithii and Casearia corymbosa.

The best time to walk is from December to February.

Mango Lancetilla Asit fs8
Asit K. Ghosh Thaumaturgist · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Lancetilla Botanical Garden 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 kmCentro de visitantes del Jardin Botanico Lancetilla
  • 32places to stay within 10 kmCosta Bella, Hostel Casa Verde, Sinaí and 29 more
  • 1restaurants 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
  • car parks within 3 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 Lancetilla Botanical Garden.

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
Cerro Izopo8.5 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Punta Izopo Wildlife Refuge209 species · 12 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Lancetilla Botanical Garden

Honduras

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 602Species

Belize Botanic Gardens

Belize · 229 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 397Species

See the guide

Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve

Belize · 210 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 55%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 473Species

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La Laguna Botanical Garden

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  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 1,158Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q632833) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species59,468 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, Birdyas

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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