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South Western Ghats montane rain forests

SPat · CC BY-SA 3.0

52% trees around it and 312 species recorded.

68Forestyas Score

ForestWildMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km52%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded312
  • Altitude2,221 m

The forest around

52% 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 17%Grassland 83%Trees 56%Grassland 44%Trees 67%Grassland 33%Built-up 0%Trees 72%Grassland 27%Water 1%Built-up 1%52%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km17%
  • 1–3 km56%
  • 3–6 km67%
  • 6–10 km72%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees56%
  • Grassland44%
  • Water0%
  • 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

312 species recorded.

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

Rhododendron arboreum
Rhododendron arboreumRhododendron arboreum8 recordsMarcus334 · CC BY 3.0
Downy rose myrtle
Downy rose myrtleRhodomyrtus tomentosa7 recordsEarth100 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Drosera peltata
Drosera peltataDrosera peltata7 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Denis Barthel assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garcinia gummi-gutta
Garcinia gummi-guttaGarcinia gummi-gutta6 recordsVssun at ml.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Impatiens parasitica
Impatiens parasiticaImpatiens parasitica5 recordsL. Shyamal · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cardamom
CardamomElettaria cardamomum4 recordsChhe ( talk ) · Public domain
Phyllocephalum scabridum
Phyllocephalum scabridumPhyllocephalum scabridum4 recordsDinesh Valke from Thane, India · CC BY-SA 2.0
Giant Crape-myrtle
Giant Crape-myrtleLagerstroemia speciosa4 recordsThe original uploader was Lokenrc at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 2.5
Gomphandra coriaceaGomphandra coriacea5 records
Indian gamboge-treeGarcinia morella5 records
Symplocos acuminataSymplocos acuminata4 records
Strobilanthes kunthianaStrobilanthes kunthiana4 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

68out of 100

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

  • 52%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 312Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,221 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

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

  1. Jan27°16°12 mm
  2. Feb30°17°22 mm
  3. Mar32°19°48 mm
  4. Apr31°21°106 mm
  5. May28°21°221 mm
  6. Jun25°20°330 mm
  7. Jul24°20°297 mm
  8. Aug24°20°250 mm
  9. Sep25°20°228 mm
  10. Oct25°19°318 mm
  11. Nov25°18°169 mm
  12. Dec25°17°39 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

South Western Ghats montane rain forests.

Terrestrial ecoregion in India

South Western Ghats montane rain forests is a forest in India, 2,221 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 52% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

312 species have been recorded around it: 75 plants, 0 fungi, 233 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rhododendron arboreum, Downy rose myrtle and Drosera peltata.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

Anamudi mountain Munnar
SPat · 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.

South Western Ghats montane rain forests 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

  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmAnaimudi view, Green Valley View and 4 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmEravikulam NP
  • 59places to stay within 10 kmEravikulam Hut, Ammukutty's Cottage, Moonlight Homestay and 56 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • car parks within 3 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 South Western Ghats montane rain forests.

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.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Anamudi2,236 m · 0.3 kmKattumala10 kmDevimala15 kmMeesapulimala2,640 m · 17 kmVandaravu23 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
AnamudiBortle 3 · this place
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Anamudi2,236 m · this place
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Lakkam Waterfalls5.5 kmKanthalloor Waterfalls15 km

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

Other forests nearby.

South Western Ghats montane rain forests

India

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 52%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 312Species

Turahalli Forest

India · 306 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 25%Trees
  • 44%Wild
  • 400Species

See the guide

Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore

India · 315 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 24%Wild
  • 304Species

See the guide

Dodda Alada Mara

India · 307 km

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 109Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7568910) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species36,135 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas

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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