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Peru Peru arboretum

Parque de las Leyendas

Thomas Flores · CC BY-SA 2.0

2% trees around it and 94 species recorded.

23Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km2%
  • wild within 10 km46%
  • species recorded94
  • Altitude61 m

The forest around

2% 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 5%Shrubland 0%Grassland 2%Bare ground 9%Built-up 84%Trees 2%Grassland 0%Water 4%Bare ground 3%Built-up 91%Trees 1%Grassland 0%Water 30%Bare ground 5%Built-up 63%Trees 1%Shrubland 0%Grassland 1%Water 45%Bare ground 7%Built-up 46%2%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km5%
  • 1–3 km2%
  • 3–6 km1%
  • 6–10 km1%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees2%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water4%
  • Bare ground3%
  • Built-up91%

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

94 species recorded.

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

Nolana humifusa
Nolana humifusaNolana humifusa9 recordsDenis.prévôt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nasturtium
NasturtiumTropaeolum majus8 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · Public domain
Purple heart
Purple heartTradescantia pallida6 recordsSun Jiao (Interaccoonale) · CC BY 4.0
Bloodflower
BloodflowerAsclepias curassavica5 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Sweet alyssum
Sweet alyssumLobularia maritima5 recordsJoanbanjo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Black-eyed Susan vine
Black-eyed Susan vineThunbergia alata5 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Gloria de la manana
Gloria de la mananaIpomoea carnea4 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cultivated tobacco
Cultivated tobaccoNicotiana tabacum4 recordsJom / Joachim Müllerchen · CC BY 2.5
Fennel
FennelFoeniculum vulgare4 recordsRyan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0
Larkdaisy
LarkdaisyCentratherum punctatum4 recordsAndra Waagmeester · CC0
Rockweed
RockweedPilea microphylla4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Purple granadilla
Purple granadillaPassiflora edulis3 recordsRarani · 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.

23out of 100

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

  • 2%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 46%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 94Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 61 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to September.

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

  1. Jan23°16°3 mm
  2. Feb23°17°5 mm
  3. Mar23°17°4 mm
  4. Apr23°16°1 mm
  5. May22°14°1 mm
  6. Jun22°13°1 mm
  7. Jul21°12°1 mm
  8. Aug21°13°1 mm
  9. Sep22°13°1 mm
  10. Oct21°14°1 mm
  11. Nov22°14°2 mm
  12. Dec22°15°3 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Parque de las Leyendas.

Zoo in Lima, Peru

Parque de las Leyendas is an arboretum in Peru.

Seen from space, 2% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 46% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

94 species have been recorded around it: 34 plants, 0 fungi, 60 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Nolana humifusa, Nasturtium and Purple heart.

The best time to walk is from May to September.

Flores Parque Leyendas
Thomas Flores · CC BY-SA 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Camping Overlander and Airbnb El Tip Viajerocampsite · 5.9 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Aliceplace to stay · 3.0 km · 988 within 10 km
  • Carmen De La Legua Reynosonearest town · 2.0 km in a straight line
  • Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at LIM airport (Lima)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at LIM airport (Lima)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.

Parque de las Leyendas 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

  • 44named and notable trees within 6 kmTupac and 43 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 kmParque Manuel Raygada
  • 6shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 7viewpoints within 5 km
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmAgencia MUNDO TRAVEL & CARGO S.A.C, Agencia EAGLE TOURS, South American Explorers Lima Clubhouse and 1 more
  • 311car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmCamping Overlander and Airbnb El Tip Viajero
  • 988places to stay within 10 kmAlice, Peru Star, Casa Yllika and 985 more
  • 486restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Parque de las Leyendas.

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.

Peakyas89 mountains within 25 km
Cerro San Cristóbal (Perú)392 m · 8.4 kmCerro Agustino485 m · 9.2 kmCerro Marcavilca281 m · 14 kmMorro Solar100 m · 14 kmCerro Pro14 kmCerros Santa Teresa17 kmCerro Pinpón17 kmCerro Retamal22 km
Coastya13 beaches within 10 km
Playa Los Delfines5.8 kmPlaya Tres Picos6.7 kmPlaya Mar Brava7.0 kmMalecón La Marina7.2 kmPlaya La Pampilla7.9 kmMalecón Cisneros8.1 kmPlaya Miraflores8.4 kmPlaya Estrella9.6 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Morro Solar PlanetariumBortle 8 · 13 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge199 species · 19 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Chivateros14 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.

Banner Parque de las leyendas
Thomas Flores · CC BY-SA 2.0
Entrada al Jardín Botánico del Parque de las Leyendas
Edithjoaquin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Parque de las leyendas entrada
Manuelito2021consupadre · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Parque de las Leyendas

Peru

  • 23Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 46%Wild
  • 94Species

Jardín botánico de Plantas Medicinales de Lima

Peru · 5 km

  • 22Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 31%Wild
  • 70Species

See the guide

Lima Botanical Garden

Peru · 7 km

  • 21Forestyas Score
  • 1%Trees
  • 25%Wild
  • 61Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6062796) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species10,472 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, Coastya, Darkskyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas

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

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