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Topkhana Forest

Safi-iren · CC BY-SA 4.0

43% trees around it and 244 species recorded.

61Forestyas Score

ForestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km43%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded244
  • Altitude1,431 m

The forest around

43% 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 39%Shrubland 3%Grassland 49%Cropland 2%Built-up 6%Trees 44%Shrubland 6%Grassland 47%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%Trees 46%Shrubland 3%Grassland 46%Cropland 4%Built-up 0%Trees 47%Shrubland 5%Grassland 41%Cropland 4%Built-up 3%43%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km39%
  • 1–3 km44%
  • 3–6 km46%
  • 6–10 km47%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees44%
  • Shrubland6%
  • Grassland47%
  • Cropland2%
  • 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

244 species recorded.

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

Common barley
Common barleyHordeum vulgare17 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Holy bramble
Holy brambleRubus sanctus10 recordsGideon Pisanty ( Gidip ) · CC BY 3.0
Lathyrus roseus
Lathyrus roseusLathyrus roseus9 recordsAndr Hospr · CC BY 4.0
Buckthorn
BuckthornRhamnus cathartica8 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hyssop
HyssopHyssopus officinalis7 recordsRobert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0
Balkan Toadflax
Balkan ToadflaxLinaria dalmatica7 recordsviridian · CC0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior6 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Astrodaucus orientalis
Astrodaucus orientalisAstrodaucus orientalis6 recordsLazaregagnidze · CC BY-SA 3.0
Stipa arabica
Stipa arabicaStipa arabica6 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wild licorice
Wild licoriceAstragalus glycyphyllos6 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
Wall germander
Wall germanderTeucrium chamaedrys6 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · Public domain
Animated oat
Animated oatAvena sterilis5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

61out of 100

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

  • 43%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 244Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,431 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan7°-2°13 mm
  2. Feb8°-2°16 mm
  3. Mar14°2°26 mm
  4. Apr18°6°29 mm
  5. May25°12°36 mm
  6. Jun30°16°25 mm
  7. Jul32°19°11 mm
  8. Aug32°18°10 mm
  9. Sep26°14°18 mm
  10. Oct20°9°28 mm
  11. Nov13°3°19 mm
  12. Dec8°-1°12 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Topkhana Forest.

Forest near Shusha in Azerbaijan

Topkhana Forest is a forest in Azerbaijan, 1,431 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 43% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

244 species have been recorded around it: 240 plants, 0 fungi, 4 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common barley, Holy bramble and Lathyrus roseus.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Jdrdyuz
Safi-iren · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Camping spotcampsite · 1.8 km · 7 within 10 km
  • Otel və Konfrans Mərkəziplace to stay · 1.3 km · 19 within 10 km
  • Shushanearest town · 1.1 km in a straight line
  • Lachin International Airport (LHL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 36 km in a straight lineCar hire at GBB airport (Gabala)Discover 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.

Topkhana Forest 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmJanapar - Section 05 - Avetaranots to Karintak, Gəzinti, Janapar - Section 07 - Shushi to Stepanakert and 1 more
  • 3picnic sites within 4 kmPicnic Area, Ailəvi İstirahət Mərkəzi, Çadır yeri
  • 7shelters and huts within 6 kmDayanacaq, Besedkalar, Besedka and 4 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmCıdır Düzü
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmCamping spot, Kamplar, Uşaq düşərgəsi and 4 more
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmOtel və Konfrans Mərkəzi, Qonaq evi, Kənd qonaq evi and 16 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Topkhana Forest.

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.

Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Kiçik Kirs Dağı2,346 m · 8.6 kmBöyük Kirs Dağı2,725 m · 12 kmGora Sarybaba2,295 m · 14 kmGorgasar Lerr2,318 m · 18 kmGora Charchenbet2,335 m · 19 kmGora Delidag2,243 m · 22 kmGora Gyulyudzha2,388 m · 23 kmCh'ormark Lerr2,672 m · 24 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Shusha Cave camp0.7 kmKhan Cave1.5 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Çətir waterfall1.8 km

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Şuşa şəhəriDSC 0836
Asgarov Ruslan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Topkhana Forest

Azerbaijan

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 43%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 244Species

Tnjri

Azerbaijan · 18 km

  • 29Forestyas Score
  • 28%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Sevan Botanical Garden

Armenia · 176 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 268Species

See the guide

Samursky Nature Park

Azerbaijan · 278 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 249Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q18343336) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,044 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, Cavernyas, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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