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Quito Botanical Gardens

David Adam Kess · CC BY-SA 4.0

26% trees around it and 280 species recorded.

42Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forestFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km26%
  • wild within 10 km58%
  • species recorded280
  • Altitude2,778 m

The forest around

26% 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 12%Grassland 7%Cropland 0%Built-up 80%Trees 28%Shrubland 1%Grassland 5%Cropland 0%Built-up 66%Trees 42%Shrubland 4%Grassland 9%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 44%Trees 31%Shrubland 6%Grassland 25%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 35%26%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km12%
  • 1–3 km28%
  • 3–6 km42%
  • 6–10 km31%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees28%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland5%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up66%

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

280 species recorded.

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

Black-eyed Susan vine
Black-eyed Susan vineThunbergia alata11 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Bolivian fuchsia
Bolivian fuchsiaFuchsia boliviana10 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens8 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
White or common arum lily
White or common arum lilyZantedeschia aethiopica5 recordsEric Hunt · CC BY-SA 2.5
Australian cheesewood
Australian cheesewoodPittosporum undulatum5 recordsLouisa Anne Meredith · Public domain
Mysore raspberry
Mysore raspberryRubus niveus5 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Oliver's touch-me-not
Oliver's touch-me-notImpatiens sodenii4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Common dandelion
Common dandelionTaraxacum officinale4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Small ballmoss
Small ballmossTillandsia recurvata3 recordsKohlnf · CC BY-SA 3.0
Persicaria capitata
Persicaria capitataPersicaria capitata3 recordsJJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sweet potato
Sweet potatoIpomoea batatas3 recordsEarth100 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ivy-leaved Toadflax
Ivy-leaved ToadflaxCymbalaria muralis3 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 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.

42out of 100

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

  • 26%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 58%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 280Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 2,778 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in February and from June to September.

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

  1. Jan22°13°139 mm
  2. Feb21°13°143 mm
  3. Mar21°14°176 mm
  4. Apr22°14°177 mm
  5. May22°13°122 mm
  6. Jun23°12°58 mm
  7. Jul24°11°34 mm
  8. Aug24°11°25 mm
  9. Sep24°12°38 mm
  10. Oct22°12°76 mm
  11. Nov22°12°90 mm
  12. Dec22°13°100 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Quito Botanical Gardens.

Botanical garden and park in Ecuador

Quito Botanical Gardens is an arboretum in Ecuador, 2,778 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 26% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 58% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

280 species have been recorded around it: 52 plants, 60 fungi, 168 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Black-eyed Susan vine, Bolivian fuchsia and White Clover.

The best time to walk is in February and from June to September.

(Jardín Botánico de Quito) pic a2
David Adam Kess · 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.

Quito Botanical Gardens 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

  • 35marked trails within 5 km001A, 003B, 002B and 32 more
  • 22named and notable trees within 6 kmMicromercado, Editorial Librería taller de arte, Punto inicial and 19 more
  • 11picnic sites within 4 kmMirador 4, Mirador 5 Cayambe, Mirador 3 Ilalo and 8 more
  • 22shelters and huts within 6 kmCasa Bar and 21 more
  • 29viewpoints within 5 kmPanecillo, Mirador de San Juan, Mirador de Guápulo and 26 more
  • 9visitor centres within 6 kmIngreso principal (Informacòn), Galápagos and Amazon Tours, El Quinde Information Centre and 6 more
  • 357car parks within 3 km
  • 38campsites within 10 kmFONAG, Hostal Zentrum, AREA DE DESCANSO and 35 more
  • 610places to stay within 10 kmLe Parc, Travellers Inn Hostel, Casa Foch and 607 more
  • 1,325restaurants 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 Quito Botanical Gardens.

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.

Peakyas71 mountains within 25 km
Itchimbía4.4 kmEl Panecillo3,035 m · 6.0 kmPichincha Volcano4,776 m · volcano · 13 kmWawa Pichincha4,035 m · 13 kmIlaló3,169 m · volcano · 13 kmCasitahua3,501 m · volcano · 17 kmvolcano Atacazo4,463 m · volcano · 24 kmPululagua3,356 m · 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Quito Astronomical ObservatoryBortle 7 · 3.7 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Pichincha Volcano4,776 m · 13 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.

Jardín Botánico de Quito, cool stone bridge. (picture) 5of6
David Adam Kess · CC BY-SA 4.0
A delightful visit to the Quito Botanical gardens - (16471692230)
Murray Foubister · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Quito Botanical Gardens

Ecuador

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 58%Wild
  • 280Species

Atocha-La Liria Botanical Garden

Ecuador · 118 km

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 94Species

See the guide

Botanical garden of Portoviejo

Ecuador · 239 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 101Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5926850) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species53,248 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, Viewyas

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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