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Sandomierz Wilderness

Kamilases · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

74% trees around it and 2 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km74%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded2
  • Altitude168 m

The forest around

74% 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 79%Grassland 12%Wetland 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 8%Trees 73%Grassland 21%Cropland 4%Built-up 2%Trees 82%Grassland 16%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 71%Grassland 19%Water 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 6%74%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km79%
  • 1–3 km73%
  • 3–6 km82%
  • 6–10 km71%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees73%
  • Grassland21%
  • Wetland0%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up2%

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

2 species recorded.

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

Hare's-foot Clover
Hare's-foot CloverTrifolium arvense2 recordsMichael Becker · 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.

57out of 100

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

  • 74%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 168 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-1°-7°39 mm
  2. Feb2°-6°35 mm
  3. Mar8°-2°42 mm
  4. Apr15°4°46 mm
  5. May20°10°81 mm
  6. Jun24°14°74 mm
  7. Jul27°16°87 mm
  8. Aug26°15°58 mm
  9. Sep21°10°62 mm
  10. Oct14°4°52 mm
  11. Nov7°0°40 mm
  12. Dec1°-4°37 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sandomierz Wilderness.

Forest in Poland

Sandomierz Wilderness is a forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 74% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

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

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

Most nad rzeką Łęg, Puszcza Sandomierska
Kamilases · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

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.

Sandomierz Wilderness 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

  • 3named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 23places to stay within 10 kmZajazd "Nad Łęgiem", Hutnik, Prestige Hotel and 20 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Sandomierz Wilderness.

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.

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Rzeka Łęg, Burdze
Kamilases · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl
Puszcza Sandomierska - okolice Mielca - 2011-05-22 - 002
Kroton · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

Other forests nearby.

Sandomierz Wilderness

Poland

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 2Species

Solska Wilderness

Poland · 71 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 85%Wild
  • 100Species

See the guide

Niepołomice Forest

Poland · 127 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 305Species

See the guide

Bartek

Poland · 108 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 10Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7416444) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species21 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, 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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