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Sisangan Forest Park

Mehrdad Sarhangi · CC BY 3.0

49% trees around it and 61 species recorded.

58Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km49%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded61

The forest around

49% 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 98%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 43%Grassland 7%Water 32%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 16%Trees 46%Grassland 3%Water 44%Cropland 1%Built-up 6%Trees 46%Grassland 2%Water 46%Cropland 1%Built-up 4%49%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km98%
  • 1–3 km43%
  • 3–6 km46%
  • 6–10 km46%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees43%
  • Grassland7%
  • Water32%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up16%

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

61 species recorded.

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

Common barley
Common barleyHordeum vulgare4 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rice
RiceOryza sativa3 recordsLeo Michels · Public domain
Bread WheatTriticum aestivum25 records
Vicia lensVicia lens3 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

58out of 100

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

  • 49%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 61Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May.

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

  1. Jan8°2°70 mm
  2. Feb9°2°64 mm
  3. Mar13°5°60 mm
  4. Apr17°9°43 mm
  5. May22°14°17 mm
  6. Jun26°18°20 mm
  7. Jul28°20°31 mm
  8. Aug28°21°38 mm
  9. Sep25°18°84 mm
  10. Oct20°13°129 mm
  11. Nov14°8°128 mm
  12. Dec10°4°82 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sisangan Forest Park.

Forest park in Nowshahr County, Iran

Sisangan Forest Park is a forest in Iran.

Seen from space, 49% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

61 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 0 fungi, 57 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common barley, Rice and Bread Wheat.

The best time to walk is from April to May.

پارک جنگلی سی سنگان - panoramio
Mehrdad Sarhangi · CC BY 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Sisangan Forest ParkGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Sisangan Forest ParkBooking.comSee prices Car hire in IranDiscover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Sisangan Forest Park 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

  • 1shelters and huts within 6 kmبارک نوشهر
  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmآقایی ولی, اقایی ولی, توسکا and 1 more
  • 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks 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 Sisangan Forest Park.

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.

Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
Kūh-e Cham Āsān14 kmKūh-e Kodīr14 kmKūh-e Hashtād Tan15 kmKūh-e Kolīk16 kmKūh-e Şobḩ Rīz21 kmKūh-e Kalāmū24 kmKūh-e Seleh Sar24 kmKūh-e Sarīvdeh25 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Pelāzh-e Sī Sangān1.7 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Ab Pari Waterfall14 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyComing soon
Kojur River

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Sisangan Forest - panoramio (1)
ak ba · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sisangan National Forest
Alireza Javaheri · CC BY 3.0
Beautiful forest - panoramio
Ali Safdarian · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Sisangan Forest Park

Iran

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 61Species

Lavizan Forest Park

Iran · 93 km

  • 32Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • 139Species

See the guide

Chitgar Park

Iran · 108 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 216Species

See the guide

National Botanical Garden of Iran

Iran · 109 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 133Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5946455) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species454 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, Coastya, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit
riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Coming soonVisit
canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Visit birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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