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Mangrove forests of Qeshm

Rayeshman · CC BY-SA 4.0

0% of the land around it is trees.

20Forestyas Score

ForestWild

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km100%

The forest around

0% 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.

Water 99%Bare ground 1%Water 79%Bare ground 21%0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km0%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Water100%
  • Bare ground0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

20out of 100

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

  • 0%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February.

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

  1. Jan22°19°29 mm
  2. Feb23°20°14 mm
  3. Mar25°21°24 mm
  4. Apr29°24°7 mm
  5. May33°28°1 mm
  6. Jun35°30°4 mm
  7. Jul36°32°1 mm
  8. Aug36°32°1 mm
  9. Sep34°31°1 mm
  10. Oct32°29°3 mm
  11. Nov28°25°11 mm
  12. Dec24°21°19 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Mangrove forests of Qeshm.

Mangrove forests near and on the island of Qeshm in the Persian Gulf, Iran

Mangrove forests of Qeshm is a forest in Iran.

Seen from space, 0% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

The best time to walk is from January to February.

Mangrove forests of Qeshm01
Rayeshman · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Mangrove forests of Qeshm 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

    • 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
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants 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 Mangrove forests of Qeshm.

    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.

    Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
    Kūh-e Başīrā11 kmThe Hummocks12 kmKūh-e Būkhow14 kmKūh-e Būkhū17 kmKūh-e Dīldān19 kmKīsh Kūh21 kmKūh-e Khosht-e Kūh24 kmKūh-e Chālū Nūr od Dīn24 km
    Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
    Namakdan Cave16 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.

    Hara forests of Qeshm - 1
    ImanFakhri · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Hara forests of Qeshm - 2
    ImanFakhri · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Mangrove forests of Qeshm 13961110 06
    Davood Marzizadeh داوود مرزی‌زاده · CC BY 4.0

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q913037) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    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, Cavernyas

    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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