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Munda Wanga Trust Botanical Garden

Joseph Manase · CC BY-SA 4.0

12% trees around it and 89 species recorded.

27Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km12%
  • wild within 10 km33%
  • species recorded89
  • Altitude1,278 m

The forest around

12% 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 7%Grassland 1%Bare ground 0%Built-up 91%Trees 13%Grassland 4%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 82%Trees 16%Shrubland 1%Grassland 6%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 75%Trees 20%Shrubland 4%Grassland 14%Bare ground 1%Cropland 9%Built-up 52%12%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km7%
  • 1–3 km13%
  • 3–6 km16%
  • 6–10 km20%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees13%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up82%

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

89 species recorded.

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

Sorghum
SorghumSorghum bicolor9 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Pethan assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Zombi pea
Zombi peaVigna vexillata9 recordsJayesh Patil from Mumbai, India · CC BY 2.0
Cenchrus americanus
Cenchrus americanusCenchrus americanus5 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Vigna frutescens
Vigna frutescensVigna frutescens4 recordsDr. Alexey Yakovlev · CC BY-SA 2.0
Crotalaria anthyllopsis
Crotalaria anthyllopsisCrotalaria anthyllopsis2 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Brachystegia boehmii
Brachystegia boehmiiBrachystegia boehmii2 recordsSue Christian Bell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh Brittlegrass
Marsh BrittlegrassSetaria parviflora2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Peanut
PeanutArachis hypogaea2 recordsMunkaila Sulemana · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vigna oblongifoliaVigna oblongifolia4 records
Vigna monophyllaVigna monophylla2 records
Vigna reticulataVigna reticulata2 records
Vernoniastrum latifoliumVernoniastrum latifolium2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

27out of 100

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

  • 12%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 33%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 89Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,278 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan27°18°207 mm
  2. Feb26°18°149 mm
  3. Mar27°17°94 mm
  4. Apr28°15°28 mm
  5. May27°12°3 mm
  6. Jun26°10°1 mm
  7. Jul25°10°1 mm
  8. Aug28°12°0 mm
  9. Sep32°16°1 mm
  10. Oct34°19°11 mm
  11. Nov32°20°81 mm
  12. Dec28°19°205 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Munda Wanga Trust Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Lusaka, Zambia

Munda Wanga Trust Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Zambia, 1,278 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 12% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 33% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

89 species have been recorded around it: 16 plants, 0 fungi, 73 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sorghum, Zombi pea and Cenchrus americanus.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Hilton Garden Inn Lusaka Society Business Park
Joseph Manase · 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.

Munda Wanga Trust 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmTree
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmMakeni House, Bayport
  • 82car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmS.M Car Park, Eureka
  • 159places to stay within 10 kmFairview Hotel, Lusaka Backpackers, Kalulu Backpackers Guest House and 156 more
  • 50restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Munda Wanga Trust 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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Makaka12 kmChilanga17 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Munda Wanga Trust Botanical Garden

Zambia

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 33%Wild
  • 89Species

National Botanic Garden

Zimbabwe · 397 km

  • 53Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 55%Wild
  • 303Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2879615) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species812 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

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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