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Zimbabwe Zimbabwe arboretum

National Botanic Garden

Sue Christian Bell · CC BY-SA 3.0

51% trees around it and 303 species recorded.

53Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km51%
  • wild within 10 km55%
  • species recorded303
  • Altitude1,506 m

The forest around

51% 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 66%Grassland 15%Cropland 6%Built-up 13%Trees 50%Shrubland 1%Grassland 9%Cropland 4%Built-up 36%Trees 47%Shrubland 1%Grassland 12%Bare ground 0%Cropland 10%Built-up 28%Trees 34%Shrubland 3%Grassland 15%Bare ground 0%Cropland 19%Built-up 30%51%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km66%
  • 1–3 km50%
  • 3–6 km47%
  • 6–10 km34%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees50%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland9%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up36%

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

303 species recorded.

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

Rivet wheat
Rivet wheatTriticum turgidum7 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lluvia de orquideas
Lluvia de orquideasCongea tomentosa2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Bush nightfighter
Bush nightfighterDracaena steudneri2 recordsTon Rulkens from Mozambique · CC BY-SA 2.0
Glue fruit
Glue fruitCordia dichotoma2 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY 3.0
Bougainvillea buttiana
Bougainvillea buttianaBougainvillea ×buttiana2 recordsHectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bread WheatTriticum aestivum10 records
Terminalia stenostachyaTerminalia stenostachya2 records
Combretum psidioidesCombretum psidioides2 records
Terminalia anisopteraTerminalia anisoptera2 records
Nauclea nyasicaNauclea nyasica2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

53out of 100

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

  • 51%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 55%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 303Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,506 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°16°180 mm
  2. Feb27°15°133 mm
  3. Mar26°14°94 mm
  4. Apr25°12°31 mm
  5. May24°9°7 mm
  6. Jun21°6°3 mm
  7. Jul21°6°19 mm
  8. Aug25°8°2 mm
  9. Sep29°11°5 mm
  10. Oct31°14°25 mm
  11. Nov30°16°94 mm
  12. Dec27°16°195 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Botanic Garden.

Botanical garden in Harare, Zimbabwe

National Botanic Garden is an arboretum in Zimbabwe, 1,506 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 51% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 55% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

303 species have been recorded around it: 10 plants, 4 fungi, 289 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rivet wheat, Lluvia de orquideas and Bush nightfighter.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Cordia africana01
Sue Christian Bell · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Small World Backpackers Lodge, Avondalecampsite · 2.2 km · 6 within 10 km
  • Chelmsford Manorplace to stay · 1.4 km · 97 within 10 km
  • Hararenearest town · 2.9 km in a straight line
  • Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport (HRE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight lineCar hire at HRE airport (Harare)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

National Botanic 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmKingfisher, Castle Corner, Point 1 and 2 more
  • 22car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmSmall World Backpackers Lodge, Avondale, Merriam Mayira, Pray Gozo and 3 more
  • 97places to stay within 10 kmChelmsford Manor, Calder Gardens, Bronte and 94 more
  • 51restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 National Botanic 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.

Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
The Kopje4.0 kmBluff Hill8.2 kmBalancing Rocks1,473 m · 13 kmPare Range18 kmSingereri Hills20 kmImpofi Hills21 kmRisumbe21 kmRumani22 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Gletwyn0.2 km² · 12 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.

Cordia africana03
Sue Christian Bell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Craibia brevicaudata03
Fiona Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Craibia brevicaudata04
Fiona Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

National Botanic Garden

Zimbabwe

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

Chirinda Forest Botanical Reserve

Zimbabwe · 339 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 78%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 196Species

See the guide

Munda Wanga Trust Botanical Garden

Zambia · 397 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6971101) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species37,148 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, Lakeyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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