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Sudan Sudan arboretum

Sudan National Botanical Garden

Petr Adam Dohnálek · CC BY-SA 3.0 cz

14% trees around it and 140 species recorded.

30Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km30%
  • species recorded140
  • Altitude382 m

The forest around

14% 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%Shrubland 1%Grassland 5%Water 8%Bare ground 7%Cropland 10%Built-up 42%Trees 12%Grassland 1%Water 29%Bare ground 6%Cropland 15%Built-up 37%Trees 4%Grassland 1%Water 15%Bare ground 11%Cropland 7%Built-up 62%Trees 3%Grassland 1%Water 7%Bare ground 17%Cropland 12%Built-up 60%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km27%
  • 1–3 km12%
  • 3–6 km4%
  • 6–10 km3%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees12%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland1%
  • Water29%
  • Bare ground6%
  • Cropland15%
  • Built-up37%

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

140 species recorded.

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

Trigonella occultaTrigonella occulta2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

30out of 100

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

  • 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 30%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 140Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 382 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to May.

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

  1. Jan31°13°0 mm
  2. Feb34°16°0 mm
  3. Mar37°18°0 mm
  4. Apr40°22°1 mm
  5. May42°26°3 mm
  6. Jun42°27°5 mm
  7. Jul38°26°44 mm
  8. Aug36°25°58 mm
  9. Sep39°25°20 mm
  10. Oct39°25°9 mm
  11. Nov35°19°0 mm
  12. Dec32°15°0 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sudan National Botanical Garden.

National botanical garden in Sudan

Sudan National Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Sudan, 382 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 30% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

140 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 0 fungi, 139 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from January to May.

National Botanical Garden (Khartoum) 001
Petr Adam Dohnálek · CC BY-SA 3.0 cz

Get there and walk

  • GREEN HALLcampsite · 3.7 km · 10 within 10 km
  • فندق السودانplace to stay · 0.9 km · 295 within 10 km
  • Burri Al Mahasnearest town · 5.4 km in a straight line
  • Khartoum International Airport (KRT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 5 km in a straight line

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.

Sudan National Botanical Garden 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmشجرة السر
  • 2picnic sites within 4 kmقرية السوميت السياحيه
  • 9shelters and huts within 6 kmنادي المهندسين الرياضي and 8 more
  • 8viewpoints within 5 kmكلية اللاهوت الإنجيلية, صالة بلاس, رمال الأسد and 5 more
  • 16car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmGREEN HALL, داخلية, منزل صلاح ابراهيم مصطفي و اولاده and 7 more
  • 295places to stay within 10 kmفندق السودان, Horizon Hotel, Rosa Park (RP) Hotel and 292 more
  • 64restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Sudan National Botanical Garden.

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
Jabal Torya10 kmJabal Surkab15 kmJabal al Liwebda17 kmJibāl el Markhyat17 kmJabal Karari20 kmAl Jabal al Azraq22 kmQal‘at al Hawah22 kmJabal Abu Wiledat22 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Valley of the QueensGucha RiverCapritage HelwanWadi Degla

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Jon Hall with Abhishek Suryawanshi in Sudan,Africa
AbhiSuryawanshi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sudanese Women (8625533015)
David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0
Grand Hotel Sudan
Grandhotelsudan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q85870573) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,468 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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