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Cape Verde Cape Verde arboretum

National Botanical Garden of Grandvaux Barbosa

Cayambe · CC BY-SA 3.0

9% trees around it and 78 species recorded.

44Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km9%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded78
  • Altitude294 m

The forest around

9% 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 9%Shrubland 34%Grassland 53%Cropland 1%Built-up 3%Trees 9%Shrubland 34%Grassland 56%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%Trees 4%Shrubland 37%Grassland 57%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 3%Shrubland 27%Grassland 63%Bare ground 2%Cropland 3%Built-up 2%9%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km9%
  • 1–3 km9%
  • 3–6 km4%
  • 6–10 km3%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees9%
  • Shrubland34%
  • Grassland56%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up1%

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

78 species recorded.

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

Hippo grass
Hippo grassEchinochloa stagnina10 recordsJose Hernandez @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database · Public domain
Lantana
LantanaLantana camara10 recordsروتانا · CC BY 4.0
Sicklebush
SicklebushDichrostachys cinerea10 recordsLalithamba from India · CC BY 2.0
Mexican fireplant
Mexican fireplantEuphorbia heterophylla10 recordsPsumuseum · CC BY-SA 4.0
Garden cosmos
Garden cosmosCosmos bipinnatus8 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Pili grass
Pili grassHeteropogon contortus7 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Bluestem
BluestemAndropogon gayanus5 recordsJose Hernandez @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database · Public domain
Durban crowfoot grass
Durban crowfoot grassDactyloctenium aegyptium4 recordsAtamari · CC BY-SA 3.0
Verdolaga
VerdolagaPortulaca oleracea4 recordsZooFari · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping Molasses Grass
Creeping Molasses GrassMelinis repens3 recordsMark Marathon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Giant Reed
Giant ReedArundo donax3 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mauritius hemp
Mauritius hempFurcraea foetida3 recordsTortie tude · CC0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

44out of 100

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

  • 9%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 78Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 294 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from February to May.

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

  1. Jan24°22°22 mm
  2. Feb23°21°20 mm
  3. Mar23°21°8 mm
  4. Apr24°22°5 mm
  5. May24°22°4 mm
  6. Jun25°23°4 mm
  7. Jul26°24°12 mm
  8. Aug27°26°56 mm
  9. Sep28°26°82 mm
  10. Oct28°26°45 mm
  11. Nov27°25°37 mm
  12. Dec25°23°30 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Botanical Garden of Grandvaux Barbosa.

Botanical garden in Cape Verde

National Botanical Garden of Grandvaux Barbosa is an arboretum in Cape Verde, 294 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 9% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

78 species have been recorded around it: 43 plants, 8 fungi, 27 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Hippo grass, Lantana and Sicklebush.

The best time to walk is from February to May.

Cape Verde Santiago National Botanical Garden entrance inside
Cayambe · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Hotel São Jorge Villageplace to stay · 0.3 km · 19 within 10 km
  • João Tevesnearest town · 2.1 km in a straight line
  • Nelson Mandela International Airport (RAI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 18 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.

National Botanical Garden of Grandvaux Barbosa 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

  • 13marked trails within 5 kmSTP Santiago Trails, STP2 Santiago Trails, STC2 Santiago Trails and 10 more
  • 10named and notable trees within 6 kmPalmtree, palmeira and 8 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 2shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 19viewpoints within 5 kmMiradouro de Alta Bossa and 18 more
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmHotel São Jorge Village, Pensão Simão e Julia, Recanto da Montanha and 16 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 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.

In our other atlases

Around National Botanical Garden of Grandvaux Barbosa.

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.

Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Pico da Antónia1,394 m · 2.6 kmMonte Tchota1,041 m · 2.9 kmMonte das Vacas437 m · 9.8 kmMonte Babosa14 kmMalagueta1,064 m · 16 kmSerra da Malagueta1,064 m · 16 kmMonte Brianda16 kmMonte Henrique19 km
Islandyasthe island
Santiago992 km²
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Serra da MalaguetaBortle 2 · 16 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Pedra Badejo lagoons Important Bird Area65 species · 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.

Cape Verde Santiago Nat Bot Garden mountains
Cayambe · CC BY-SA 3.0 lu
São Jorge dos Órgãos-Jardin botanique national Grandvaux Barbosa (1)
Ji-Elle · CC BY-SA 3.0
São Jorge dos Órgãos-Jardin botanique national Grandvaux Barbosa (2)
Ji-Elle · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

National Botanical Garden of Grandvaux Barbosa

Cape Verde

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 9%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 78Species

Jardim Botânico

Cape Verde · 1 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 80Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3162427) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,347 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, Islandyas, Darkskyas, 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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