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Oliveira do Mouchão

João Pinheiro · CC BY-SA 4.0

48% trees around it and 143 species recorded.

62Forestyas Score

Notable treeBirds

  • trees within 3 km48%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded143
  • Altitude73 m

The forest around

48% 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 52%Shrubland 1%Grassland 37%Water 8%Bare ground 0%Built-up 1%Trees 47%Shrubland 4%Grassland 41%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 4%Trees 55%Shrubland 7%Grassland 34%Water 2%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%Trees 65%Shrubland 9%Grassland 22%Water 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%48%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km52%
  • 1–3 km47%
  • 3–6 km55%
  • 6–10 km65%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees47%
  • Shrubland4%
  • Grassland41%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up4%

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

143 species recorded.

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

Olive tree
Olive treeOlea europaea98 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cork Oak
Cork OakQuercus suber39 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0
Maritime Pine
Maritime PinePinus pinaster11 recordsLivioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common borage
Common borageBorago officinalis2 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

62out of 100

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

  • 48%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 143Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 73 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan13°3°82 mm
  2. Feb14°4°65 mm
  3. Mar17°6°77 mm
  4. Apr20°8°67 mm
  5. May24°11°46 mm
  6. Jun29°14°20 mm
  7. Jul32°15°7 mm
  8. Aug32°16°10 mm
  9. Sep29°14°34 mm
  10. Oct23°11°101 mm
  11. Nov16°6°101 mm
  12. Dec13°4°78 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Oliveira do Mouchão.

Monument tree

Oliveira do Mouchão is a notable tree in Portugal.

Seen from space, 48% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

143 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 0 fungi, 138 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Olive tree, Cork Oak and Maritime Pine.

The best time to walk is in April.

Oliveira de Mouchão
João Pinheiro · 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.

Oliveira do Mouchão 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmCaminho do Tejo, Rota da Ortigal Sul, Caminhos de Fátima
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmOliveira do Mouchão
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmColinas do Tejo, Parque de Campismo Municipal de Ortiga, ParqueTejo and 6 more
  • 8places to stay within 10 kmHotel Abrantur, Quinta de Coalhos, casas do lagar and 5 more
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Oliveira do Mouchão.

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.

Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Alto da Portela3.6 kmAlto do Molha Pão7.1 kmSerra do Carvalhal10 kmAlto do Vale de Colmeias14 kmAlto do Pé da Travessa15 kmSerra do Moledo22 kmSerra da Galega23 kmSerra da Moita da Asna24 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Tagus River1,007 km · 500 m³/sAlviela RiverRio Ota

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

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  • 48%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 143Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q98444399) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species26,806 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, Riveryas

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

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