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Raspaillebos

FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0

28% trees around it and 1,041 species recorded.

44Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km28%
  • wild within 10 km57%
  • species recorded1,041
  • Altitude61 m

The forest around

28% 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 46%Grassland 25%Cropland 27%Built-up 2%Trees 25%Grassland 37%Water 0%Cropland 30%Built-up 7%Trees 27%Grassland 34%Cropland 30%Built-up 9%Trees 21%Grassland 33%Bare ground 0%Cropland 38%Built-up 8%28%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km46%
  • 1–3 km25%
  • 3–6 km27%
  • 6–10 km21%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees25%
  • Grassland37%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland30%
  • Built-up7%

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

1,041 species recorded.

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

Common buttercup
Common buttercupRanunculus acris1,380 recordsAlinja · CC BY-SA 4.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria971 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis960 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Bluebell
Common BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta727 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cabbage Thistle
Cabbage ThistleCirsium oleraceum705 recordsDiAuras · CC BY-SA 4.0
True oxlip
True oxlipPrimula elatior688 recordsԱրարատ Թրվանց · CC BY-SA 4.0
Snakeshead
SnakesheadArum maculatum628 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Moschatel
MoschatelAdoxa moschatellina571 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa571 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Sweet vernal grass
Sweet vernal grassAnthoxanthum odoratum562 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Crested dogstail grass
Crested dogstail grassCynosurus cristatus561 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
European woodland sedge
European woodland sedgeCarex sylvatica550 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

44out of 100

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

  • 28%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 57%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,041Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 61 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. Jan6°0°69 mm
  2. Feb7°0°60 mm
  3. Mar10°2°55 mm
  4. Apr15°4°38 mm
  5. May18°8°59 mm
  6. Jun21°11°64 mm
  7. Jul23°13°76 mm
  8. Aug22°13°81 mm
  9. Sep20°10°57 mm
  10. Oct15°7°67 mm
  11. Nov10°4°73 mm
  12. Dec6°1°79 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Raspaillebos.

Forest in Geraardsbergen, Belgium

Raspaillebos is a forest in Belgium.

Seen from space, 28% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 57% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,041 species have been recorded around it: 788 plants, 14 fungi, 211 birds and 28 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common buttercup, Queen of the meadow and Cuckoo flower.

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

Raspaillebos 11
FrDr · 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.

Raspaillebos 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

  • 217marked trails within 5 kmStreek-GR Vlaamse Ardennen, GR 512 Brabantse Heuvelroute (hoofdtraject), GR 5A Wandelronde van Vlaanderen (Zuid) and 214 more
  • 33picnic sites within 4 km
  • 73shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmOudeberg
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmNatuur- en milieueducatief centrum De Helix, De Permanensje
  • 26car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmVerblijfpark Raspaljebos, Domein de Gavers, Aire de camping-car de Lessines and 2 more
  • 66places to stay within 10 kmDen Boskant, 't Schipken, Casa Dodo and 63 more
  • 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees 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 Raspaillebos.

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.

Peakyas65 mountains within 25 km
Bosberg105 m · 0.5 kmValkenberg98 m · 14 kmLeberg99 m · 16 kmMolenberg56 m · 18 kmMuziekberg145 m · 21 kmMont de Mainvault120 m · 21 kmEikenberg82 m · 22 kmTaaienberg90 m · 22 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Beersel Hills ObservatoryBortle 8 · 26 kmRoyal Observatory of BelgiumBortle 8 · 30 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.

Raspaillebos 03
FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0
Geraardsbergen - Kapellestraat - Raspaillebos, Moerbekebos en Karkoolbos (2021-05-10 16-44-35
Johan Allard · CC BY-SA 4.0
Geraardsbergen - Kapellestraat - Raspaillebos, Moerbekebos en Karkoolbos (2021-05-10 16-44-36
Johan Allard · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Raspaillebos

Belgium

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 28%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 1,041Species

Sonian Forest

Belgium · 36 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 1,917Species

See the guide

Forêt de Mormal

France · 66 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 1,164Species

See the guide

Halle Forest

Belgium · 26 km

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 59%Wild
  • 1,163Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q14252595) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species182,183 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 atlasesPeakyas, Darkskyas

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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