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Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad

Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

40% trees around it and 781 species recorded.

63Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km40%
  • wild within 10 km83%
  • species recorded781

The forest around

40% 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 39%Grassland 24%Built-up 36%Trees 40%Grassland 4%Water 5%Cropland 0%Built-up 50%Trees 42%Mangroves 3%Grassland 4%Wetland 0%Water 30%Built-up 20%Trees 42%Mangroves 6%Grassland 3%Wetland 1%Water 37%Built-up 11%40%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km39%
  • 1–3 km40%
  • 3–6 km42%
  • 6–10 km42%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees40%
  • Mangroves0%
  • Grassland4%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water5%
  • Built-up50%

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

781 species recorded.

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

Spiny treefern
Spiny treefernCyathea pungens14 recordsDick Culbert · CC BY 2.0
Lantana
LantanaLantana camara10 recordsروتانا · CC BY 4.0
American muskwood
American muskwoodGuarea guidonia10 recordsMe · Public domain
Chestnut scale spleenwort
Chestnut scale spleenwortAsplenium cirrhatum9 recordsInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica - INMA · CC BY-SA 4.0
Incised halberd fern
Incised halberd fernTectaria incisa9 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Sterculia pruriens
Sterculia pruriensSterculia pruriens9 recordsJean-Pierre Chéreau & Roger Culos · CC BY-SA 3.0
Caruzo
CaruzoIchnanthus pallens8 recordsInstituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica - INMA · CC BY-SA 4.0
Golden polypody
Golden polypodyPhlebodium aureum7 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Granadillo bobo
Granadillo boboMiconia prasina7 recordsXemenendura · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purging Cassia
Purging CassiaCassia fistula7 recordsDelonix · CC BY-SA 3.0
Broadleaf carpetgrass
Broadleaf carpetgrassAxonopus compressus6 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Myrcia stenocarpaMyrcia stenocarpa13 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

63out of 100

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

  • 40%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 83%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 781Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to March.

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

  1. Jan28°23°100 mm
  2. Feb29°23°61 mm
  3. Mar30°24°52 mm
  4. Apr31°24°56 mm
  5. May30°25°117 mm
  6. Jun29°25°222 mm
  7. Jul29°25°202 mm
  8. Aug29°25°202 mm
  9. Sep30°25°141 mm
  10. Oct29°25°176 mm
  11. Nov29°24°213 mm
  12. Dec28°24°178 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad.

Botanic gardens located at Port of Spain

Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad is an arboretum in Trinidad and Tobago.

Seen from space, 40% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 83% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

781 species have been recorded around it: 575 plants, 31 fungi, 170 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Spiny treefern, Lantana and American muskwood.

The best time to walk is from January to March.

Botanic Gardens Trinidad 2006-03-22
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 19shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmFort George, The Lookout, Lady Chancellor Road
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmWest Vale Park Administration Office
  • 177car parks within 3 km
  • 51places to stay within 10 kmNormandie Hotel, The Chancellor, Halyconia Inn and 48 more
  • 157restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad.

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.

Peakyas23 mountains within 25 km
Laventille Hills2.8 kmSaint Ann's Peak4.6 kmMacaque Hill6.7 kmNorth Post9.7 kmPiedra Blanca10 kmMorne Pierre11 kmEl Tucuche936 m · 13 kmMount Tabor13 km
Islandyasthe island
Trinidad4,768 km²
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Saut d’Eau Cave8.4 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Caroni Swamp319 species · 11 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Blue Basin Falls7.2 kmEdith Falls14 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.

Maraval River
LittleT889 · CC BY 4.0
TnT PoS M7-1 Queen's Royal College
Grueslayer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Queen's Royal College - panoramio
James Roberts (Jampp… · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 781Species

Sir Eric Matthew Gairy Botanical Gardens

Grenada · 155 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 59%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 101Species

See the guide

Botanic Gardens St. Vincent

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · 279 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 104Species

See the guide

St. Lucia Botanical Gardens

Saint Lucia · 357 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 91Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7373835) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species9,389 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Birdyas, Cascadyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

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