Benin arboretum
Musée en Plein Air de Parakou
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12% trees around it and 51 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km12%
- wild within 10 km47%
- species recorded51
- Altitude372 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km23%
- 1–3 km10%
- 3–6 km11%
- 6–10 km27%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees10%
- Shrubland6%
- Grassland5%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland14%
- Built-up65%
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
51 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
VU
Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
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
- 47%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 51Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 372 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from November to March.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan17°5 mm
- Feb20°9 mm
- Mar23°33 mm
- Apr23°76 mm
- May23°116 mm
- Jun22°140 mm
- Jul22°176 mm
- Aug21°210 mm
- Sep21°206 mm
- Oct21°112 mm
- Nov19°11 mm
- Dec17°2 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Musée en Plein Air de Parakou.
Cultural museum near Parakou, Benin
Musée en Plein Air de Parakou is an arboretum in Benin, 372 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 12% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 47% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
51 species have been recorded around it: 38 plants, 0 fungi, 7 birds and 6 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Shea butter, Hexalobus monopetalus and Bulbostylis pilosa.
The best time to walk is from November to March.
Get there and walk
- MOTEL DU SEPTENTRIONplace to stay · 1.6 km · 67 within 10 km
- Parakounearest town · 1.6 km in a straight line
- General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport (ILR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 229 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 11named and notable trees within 6 kmneem, 🌲, Arbre de Melina and 8 more
- 3shelters and huts within 6 kmService immobilier, Chez holà
- 8car parks within 3 km
- 67places to stay within 10 kmMOTEL DU SEPTENTRION, Residence COTEB, l'oiseau Bleu and 64 more
- 39restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- marked trails within 5 km
- picnic sites within 4 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- campsites within 10 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Musée en Plein Air de Parakou
Benin
- 25Forestyas Score
- 12%Trees
- 47%Wild
- 51Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2784689) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 383 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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