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Puszcza Kurpiowska

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

41% trees around it and 16 species recorded.

46Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km41%
  • wild within 10 km86%
  • species recorded16
  • Altitude116 m

The forest around

41% 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 66%Grassland 28%Cropland 5%Trees 38%Grassland 47%Cropland 14%Built-up 0%Trees 26%Grassland 57%Water 1%Cropland 16%Built-up 1%Trees 36%Grassland 51%Cropland 11%Built-up 2%41%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km66%
  • 1–3 km38%
  • 3–6 km26%
  • 6–10 km36%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees38%
  • Grassland47%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland14%
  • Built-up0%

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

16 species recorded.

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

Field pumpkin
Field pumpkinCucurbita pepo2 recordsVarious · CC BY-SA 1.0
Kidney bean
Kidney beanPhaseolus vulgaris2 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Parsley
ParsleyPetroselinum crispum2 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garden tomatoSolanum lycopersicum4 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

46out of 100

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

  • 41%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 86%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 16Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 116 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-2°-7°45 mm
  2. Feb0°-6°37 mm
  3. Mar6°-3°39 mm
  4. Apr13°2°38 mm
  5. May19°8°69 mm
  6. Jun22°12°72 mm
  7. Jul24°14°83 mm
  8. Aug24°14°71 mm
  9. Sep19°9°53 mm
  10. Oct12°4°57 mm
  11. Nov5°0°49 mm
  12. Dec0°-4°47 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Puszcza Kurpiowska.

Puszcza Kurpiowska is a forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 41% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 86% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

16 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 0 fungi, 12 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Field pumpkin, Kidney bean and Parsley.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Puszcza Kurpiowska 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.

Puszcza Kurpiowska 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

  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 9car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmKurpiowska Kraina
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmKurpiowska Kraina, Pokoje Gościnne Impresja Kadzidło
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Puszcza Kurpiowska.

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.

Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Jezioro NidzkieBortle 2 · 30 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Puszcza Kurpiowska

Poland

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 41%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 16Species

Puszcza Piska Forest

Poland · 33 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 116Species

See the guide

Puszcza Biała

Poland · 70 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 88%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Puszcza Borecka

Poland · 100 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 138Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5735175) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species89 open records within 5 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 atlasesDarkskyas

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

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