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Menengai Forest

Njihiagk · CC BY-SA 4.0

68% trees around it and 223 species recorded.

60Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km68%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded223
  • Altitude2,235 m

The forest around

68% 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 87%Shrubland 1%Grassland 7%Cropland 4%Built-up 0%Trees 65%Shrubland 3%Grassland 10%Wetland 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 14%Built-up 8%Trees 32%Shrubland 3%Grassland 25%Wetland 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 15%Built-up 24%Trees 29%Shrubland 5%Grassland 20%Water 8%Bare ground 0%Cropland 27%Built-up 11%68%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km87%
  • 1–3 km65%
  • 3–6 km32%
  • 6–10 km29%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees65%
  • Shrubland3%
  • Grassland10%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland14%
  • 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

223 species recorded.

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

Thorn-apple
Thorn-appleDatura stramonium15 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Black pouiVU
Black pouiJacaranda mimosifolia15 recordsKahuroa · Public domain
Castor oil plant
Castor oil plantRicinus communis15 recordsNolege · CC BY-SA 3.0
Southern Silky-oak
Southern Silky-oakGrevillea robusta14 recordsMargaretRDonald · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lantana
LantanaLantana camara14 recordsروتانا · CC BY 4.0
Sky Flower
Sky FlowerDuranta erecta13 recordsGowrivemban · CC0
Dovyalis afra
Dovyalis afraDovyalis afra10 recordsRaasgat · Public domain
Apple of Peru
Apple of PeruNicandra physalodes10 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. ArtMechanic assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tree marigold
Tree marigoldTithonia diversifolia8 recordsThierry Caro · Public domain
Marvel of Peru
Marvel of PeruMirabilis jalapa7 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purpletop vervain
Purpletop vervainVerbena bonariensis6 recordsfrank wouters · CC BY 2.0
Tropical whiteweed
Tropical whiteweedAgeratum conyzoides5 recordsMinghong · CC BY-SA 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.

60out of 100

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

  • 68%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 223Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,235 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in July.

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

  1. Jan23°9°54 mm
  2. Feb24°9°39 mm
  3. Mar24°10°105 mm
  4. Apr22°11°206 mm
  5. May20°10°149 mm
  6. Jun20°10°82 mm
  7. Jul19°9°68 mm
  8. Aug20°9°89 mm
  9. Sep21°9°85 mm
  10. Oct21°10°115 mm
  11. Nov21°10°146 mm
  12. Dec22°10°95 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Menengai Forest.

Protected area in Kenya

Menengai Forest is a forest in Kenya, 2,235 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 68% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

223 species have been recorded around it: 49 plants, 3 fungi, 152 birds and 19 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Thorn-apple, Black poui and Castor oil plant.

The best time to walk is in July.

Menengai Crater 3
Njihiagk · 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.

Menengai Forest 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

  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmMaili Saba, Flamingo Hill Camp, Ziwa Bush Lodge
  • 90places to stay within 10 kmGraceland Hotel, Red Rose, Hotel Carnation and 87 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
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Menengai Forest.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Menengai2,278 m · volcano · 5.6 kmIsirkon12 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lake Nakuru41 km² · 13 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Menengai2,278 m · 5.9 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Lake Nakuru508 species · 13 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.

Menengai Crater 1
Njihiagk · CC BY-SA 4.0
Menengai crater view from the edge
Hgmichna · CC BY 3.0
Menengai Marvel- A breathtaking glimpse into the vast beauty of Menengai Crater, where nature's beauty meets Kenyan mystique.
Tall Black · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Menengai Forest

Kenya

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 223Species

Kakamega Forest

Kenya · 144 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 580Species

See the guide

Karura Forest

Kenya · 137 km

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 707Species

See the guide

Mabira Forest

Uganda · 349 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 535Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q24236161) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,024 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, Lakeyas, Viewyas, 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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