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Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area

rheins · CC BY 3.0

100% trees around it and 450 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded450
  • Altitude178 m

The forest around

100% 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 99%Built-up 1%Trees 100%Built-up 0%Trees 99%Grassland 0%Built-up 0%Trees 98%Grassland 0%Water 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%100%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km100%
  • 3–6 km99%
  • 6–10 km98%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees100%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

450 species recorded.

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

Champereia manillana
Champereia manillanaChampereia manillana13 recordsMokkie · CC BY-SA 3.0
Machilus obovatifolia
Machilus obovatifoliaMachilus obovatifolia10 recordsTiouraren (Y.-C. Tsai) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hairy beggarticks
Hairy beggarticksBidens pilosa10 recordsWiki Farazi · CC0
Ardisia sieboldii
Ardisia sieboldiiArdisia sieboldii10 recordsKeisotyo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Grypothrix longipetiolataGrypothrix longipetiolata36 records
Grypothrix megacuspisGrypothrix megacuspis22 records
Grypothrix pseudoliukiuensisGrypothrix pseudoliukiuensis12 records
Illicium arborescensIllicium arborescens12 records
Quercus pachylomaQuercus pachyloma11 records
Grypothrix parishiiGrypothrix parishii10 records
Astronia ferrugineaAstronia ferruginea10 records
Syzygium kusukusenseSyzygium kusukusense10 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

85out of 100

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

  • 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 450Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 178 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February.

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

  1. Jan23°22°33 mm
  2. Feb24°22°29 mm
  3. Mar25°23°37 mm
  4. Apr27°25°50 mm
  5. May28°27°161 mm
  6. Jun29°28°251 mm
  7. Jul29°28°258 mm
  8. Aug29°28°388 mm
  9. Sep29°28°230 mm
  10. Oct28°26°87 mm
  11. Nov26°25°62 mm
  12. Dec24°22°47 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area.

Forest in Pingtung County

Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area is a forest in Taiwan.

Seen from space, 100% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

450 species have been recorded around it: 336 plants, 0 fungi, 110 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Champereia manillana, Machilus obovatifolia and Hairy beggarticks.

The best time to walk is from January to February.

东源森林游乐区 - Dongyuan Forest Recreatioan Area - 2012.02 - panoramio
rheins · CC BY 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • 舞浪園露營區campsite · 8.4 km · 2 within 10 km
  • 我家民宿place to stay · 8.8 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Hengchunnearest town · 24 km in a straight line
  • Kaohsiung International Airport (KHH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 61 km in a straight lineCar hire in KaohsiungDiscover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 km帽子山步道, 白榕步道, 瀑布步道 and 3 more
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 5shelters and huts within 6 km觀景台 and 4 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km觀景台
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 km舞浪園露營區
  • 3places to stay within 10 km我家民宿, 美星超市民宿, 墾丁香蒲民宿
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • restaurants 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 Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area.

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.

Peakyas101 mountains within 25 km
Neiwen Shan984 m · 14 kmMount Tjaljagaduan1,311 m · 15 kmChachadun Shan924 m · 17 kmMount Valalji1,470 m · 18 kmXiewu Shan930 m · 20 kmMount Kuvareng1,492 m · 22 kmRimu Shan1,307 m · 23 kmLiuli1,039 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Mudan Shuiku0.7 km² · 9.0 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 450Species

Kenting National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 29 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 876Species

See the guide

Jhihben National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 56 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 303Species

See the guide

Xitou Nature Education Area

Taiwan · 162 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 859Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q17035731) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,300 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Lakeyas

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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