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Rrapi i Marashit

Mergim.emini · CC BY-SA 4.0

34% trees around it and 81 species recorded.

45Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km34%
  • wild within 10 km77%
  • species recorded81
  • Altitude421 m

The forest around

34% 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 27%Grassland 15%Cropland 1%Built-up 58%Trees 35%Grassland 22%Bare ground 0%Cropland 7%Built-up 36%Trees 45%Grassland 26%Bare ground 0%Cropland 22%Built-up 7%Trees 54%Grassland 28%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 14%Built-up 3%34%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km27%
  • 1–3 km35%
  • 3–6 km45%
  • 6–10 km54%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees35%
  • Grassland22%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland7%
  • Built-up36%

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

81 species recorded.

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

Oat
OatAvena sativa12 recordsSendelbach ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus8 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fig
FigFicus carica8 recordsSilverije · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bladder campion
Bladder campionSilene vulgaris8 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shining geranium
Shining geraniumGeranium lucidum6 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Aroche assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
Black henbane
Black henbaneHyoscyamus niger5 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Lawn-daisy
Lawn-daisyBellis perennis5 recordsm.dolores paderne sa… · CC BY-SA 3.0
Asplenium ceterach
Asplenium ceterachAsplenium ceterach3 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata3 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wall-rue
Wall-rueAsplenium ruta-muraria2 recordsCarl Axel Magnus Lindman · Public domain
Vipers bugloss
Vipers buglossEchium vulgare2 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon2 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

45out of 100

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

  • 34%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 77%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 81Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 421 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. Jan1°-6°81 mm
  2. Feb3°-5°73 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°77 mm
  4. Apr12°2°68 mm
  5. May17°7°75 mm
  6. Jun22°11°56 mm
  7. Jul26°14°37 mm
  8. Aug27°14°38 mm
  9. Sep20°9°71 mm
  10. Oct15°5°91 mm
  11. Nov9°0°102 mm
  12. Dec2°-4°92 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Rrapi i Marashit.

Maple tree in Kosovo

Rrapi i Marashit is a notable tree in Kosovo, 421 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 34% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 77% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

81 species have been recorded around it: 22 plants, 0 fungi, 58 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Oat, Greater Celandine and Fig.

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

Rrapi Prizren1
Mergim.emini · 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.

Rrapi i Marashit 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmRruga e Marashit, Rrugëtimi i Gurit, Përjetoni Kalanë e Prizrenit and 1 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmTrungu i Rrapit
  • 6picnic sites within 4 kmRTK Prizren and 5 more
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 10viewpoints within 5 kmSahat Kulla, Pamje nga Kalaja e Prizrenit, Paragliding Take Off and 7 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Information Center
  • 123car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamp Prizren, Kopanavoda
  • 75places to stay within 10 kmKaçinari, HOSTEL M99, Venisi and 72 more
  • 169restaurants 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 Rrapi i Marashit.

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.

Peakyas97 mountains within 25 km
Kobilica2,528 m · 15 kmIsa Aga2,555 m · 15 kmCrn Vrv2,585 m · 17 kmDžini Beg2,610 m · 19 kmPeskovi2,651 m · 21 kmKoritnik2,393 m · 21 kmLake Peak (Eastern Šar Mountains)2,580 m · 23 kmTitov Vrv2,747 m · 25 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Lumbardhi i Prizrenit18 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.

Rrapi Prizren6
Mergim.emini · CC BY-SA 4.0
PrizrenCollection2 2010 100 2680
James Michael DuPont · CC BY-SA 3.0
PrizrenCollection2 2010 100 2681
James Michael DuPont · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Rrapi i Marashit

Kosovo

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 81Species

Biogradska Gora

Montenegro · 121 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 165Species

See the guide

Stara Maslina

Montenegro · 134 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 54%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 24Species

See the guide

Botanical Gardens of Tirana

Albania · 127 km

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 111Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q31664998) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species553 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, Riveryas

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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