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Egypt Egypt arboretum

Orman Garden

Yomna402 · CC BY-SA 4.0

4% trees around it and 176 species recorded.

26Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km4%
  • wild within 10 km15%
  • species recorded176

The forest around

4% 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 13%Water 14%Cropland 3%Built-up 70%Trees 3%Grassland 0%Water 9%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 84%Trees 2%Shrubland 0%Water 4%Bare ground 3%Cropland 4%Built-up 87%Trees 6%Shrubland 1%Grassland 0%Water 3%Bare ground 8%Cropland 16%Built-up 66%4%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km13%
  • 1–3 km3%
  • 3–6 km2%
  • 6–10 km6%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees3%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water9%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up84%

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

176 species recorded.

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

Olive tree
Olive treeOlea europaea30 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Date palm
Date palmPhoenix dactylifera18 recordsEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0
Kleingrass
KleingrassPanicum coloratum6 recordsUSDA NRCS James E. "Bud" Smith Plant Materials Center · Public domain
Wild oat
Wild oatAvena fatua6 recordsHelge Oskarsen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rivet wheat
Rivet wheatTriticum turgidum6 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nut-grass
Nut-grassCyperus rotundus6 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Rickjpelleg assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 2.5
Viper grass
Viper grassDinebra retroflexa5 recordsBlondeau, Alexandre; Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph; France.; France.; France.; Institut d' · Public domain
Slender Oat
Slender OatAvena barbata5 recordsJose Hernandez · Public domain
Baldcypress
BaldcypressTaxodium distichum4 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Torpedo grass
Torpedo grassPanicum repens4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Papaya
PapayaCarica papaya4 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Common hackberry
Common hackberryCeltis occidentalis4 recordsMasebrock at English Wikipedia · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

26out of 100

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

  • 4%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 15%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 176Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from December to February.

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

  1. Jan18°6°8 mm
  2. Feb20°7°7 mm
  3. Mar25°9°7 mm
  4. Apr29°13°9 mm
  5. May34°17°0 mm
  6. Jun37°20°0 mm
  7. Jul38°21°0 mm
  8. Aug38°22°0 mm
  9. Sep35°20°0 mm
  10. Oct30°17°5 mm
  11. Nov25°12°17 mm
  12. Dec20°8°6 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Orman Garden.

Botanical garden in El Giza, Egypt

Orman Garden is an arboretum in Egypt.

Seen from space, 4% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 15% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

176 species have been recorded around it: 104 plants, 0 fungi, 65 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Olive tree, Date palm and Kleingrass.

The best time to walk is from December to February.

Example of Plant Offerings at Orman
Yomna402 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Orman GardenGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Orman GardenBooking.comSee prices Car hire at CAI airport (Cairo)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Orman 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmسلم المساكن
  • 4named and notable trees within 6 kmZamalek tree, Palm, medosa and 1 more
  • 343shelters and huts within 6 kmMahmoud Khafagi's Home and 342 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmباب النصر, باب المزهرية, كشك ميسي and 2 more
  • 52car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmبيت اقارب, منزل سهل حمزة, Isis Garden Camp and 6 more
  • 271places to stay within 10 kmSafir Hotel, Nouran, King Hotel and 268 more
  • 232restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Orman 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.

Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
Naqb el-Khigâla13 kmJabal Abū Rawwāsh13 kmJabal Ţurá15 kmEl-Gabal el-Ahmar17 kmJabal Ḩawf20 kmTall al Fakhrī20 kmJabal al Khashab22 kmKawmas Sabkhah22 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
National Research Institute of Astronomy and GeophysicsBortle 9 · 22 kmQism HelwanBortle 9 · 22 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyComing soon
Nile6,650 km · 2,830 m³/sGucha River

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Orman garden - Cairo By Hatem Moushir 11
Hatem Moushir · CC BY-SA 3.0
Orman Garden - Lotus pond 01
Wilrooij · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cactus Offerings at Orman
Yomna402 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Orman Garden

Egypt

  • 26Forestyas Score
  • 4%Trees
  • 15%Wild
  • 176Species

Yatir Forest

Israel · 396 km

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 85%Wild
  • 219Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4991033) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,681 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, Darkskyas, Riveryas

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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