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National Heroes Park

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

7% trees around it and 32 species recorded.

30Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km7%
  • wild within 10 km73%
  • species recorded32

The forest around

7% 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 8%Cropland 0%Built-up 85%Trees 8%Grassland 6%Water 15%Bare ground 0%Built-up 71%Trees 17%Mangroves 2%Grassland 4%Water 38%Bare ground 0%Built-up 37%Trees 37%Mangroves 1%Grassland 4%Wetland 1%Water 40%Bare ground 0%Built-up 16%7%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km7%
  • 1–3 km8%
  • 3–6 km17%
  • 6–10 km37%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees8%
  • Mangroves0%
  • Grassland6%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water15%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up71%

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

32 species recorded.

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

Turkey berry
Turkey berrySolanum torvum2 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Commicarpus scandens
Commicarpus scandensCommicarpus scandens2 recordsJohannes le Mair.; Meerburgh, Nicolaas · Public domain
Swollen fingergrass
Swollen fingergrassChloris barbata2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Andrographis paniculataAndrographis paniculata2 records
Asian crabgrassDigitaria bicornis2 records
Husk tomatoPhysalis pubescens2 records
Passiflora perfoliataPassiflora perfoliata2 records
Hairy joyweedAlternanthera halimifolia2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

30out of 100

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

  • 7%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 73%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 32Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to March.

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

  1. Jan27°24°33 mm
  2. Feb28°24°19 mm
  3. Mar28°24°29 mm
  4. Apr29°25°41 mm
  5. May29°26°111 mm
  6. Jun29°26°89 mm
  7. Jul29°26°69 mm
  8. Aug30°26°104 mm
  9. Sep30°26°127 mm
  10. Oct29°26°170 mm
  11. Nov28°25°87 mm
  12. Dec28°24°49 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Heroes Park.

Park in Kingston, Jamaica

National Heroes Park is an arboretum in Jamaica.

Seen from space, 7% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 73% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

32 species have been recorded around it: 8 plants, 2 fungi, 22 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Turkey berry, Commicarpus scandens and Swollen fingergrass.

The best time to walk is from January to March.

National Heroes Park seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

National Heroes Park 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 kmLignum Vitae Tree
  • 17shelters and huts within 6 kmGazebo and 16 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmPowergen ltd
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmInformation Centre
  • 96car parks within 3 km
  • 57places to stay within 10 kmHome, Alhambra Inn, The Gladstone and 54 more
  • 67restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Heroes Park.

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.

Peakyas24 mountains within 25 km
Long Mountain4.1 kmEasy Mind Mountain16 kmMount Recovery17 kmHellshire Hills19 kmSir Johns Peak1,477 m · 20 kmQueensbury Ridge22 kmAlbion Mountain22 kmBlue Mountain Peak2,256 m · 23 km
Islandyasthe island
Jamaica11,190 km²
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Buccaneer Beach4.8 kmGunboat Beach5.1 km

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

Other forests nearby.

National Heroes Park

Jamaica

  • 30Forestyas Score
  • 7%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 32Species

Hope Botanical Gardens

Jamaica · 6 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 211Species

See the guide

Bath Botanical Gardens

Jamaica · 47 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 49Species

See the guide

Cupaynicú

Cuba · 257 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 96Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q13643615) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species207 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, Coastya

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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