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Trsteno Arboretum

Pudelek (Marcin Szala) · CC BY-SA 3.0

21% trees around it and 45 species recorded.

48Forestyas Score

ArboretumWild

  • trees within 3 km21%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded45
  • Altitude64 m

The forest around

21% 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 30%Shrubland 31%Grassland 2%Water 34%Built-up 2%Trees 20%Shrubland 29%Grassland 2%Water 49%Built-up 1%Trees 28%Shrubland 24%Grassland 4%Water 42%Built-up 1%Trees 26%Shrubland 22%Grassland 6%Water 45%Built-up 1%21%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km30%
  • 1–3 km20%
  • 3–6 km28%
  • 6–10 km26%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees20%
  • Shrubland29%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water49%
  • Built-up1%

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

45 species recorded.

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

European smoketree
European smoketreeCotinus coggygria7 recordsLIght Dim · CC0
St. John's Bread
St. John's BreadCeratonia siliqua5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Strawberry-tree
Strawberry-treeArbutus unedo3 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Shrubby germander
Shrubby germanderTeucrium fruticans3 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Quince
QuinceCydonia oblonga3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Olive tree
Olive treeOlea europaea3 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ferngrass
FerngrassCatapodium rigidum2 recordsHitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Mi · Public domain
Ruscus aculeatus
Ruscus aculeatusRuscus aculeatus2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Vista~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims) · CC BY-SA 3.0
White or common arum lily
White or common arum lilyZantedeschia aethiopica2 recordsEric Hunt · CC BY-SA 2.5
Laurustinus
LaurustinusViburnum tinus2 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Stinking iris
Stinking irisIris foetidissima2 recordsJymm · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

48out of 100

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

  • 21%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 45Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 64 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan11°8°143 mm
  2. Feb11°8°142 mm
  3. Mar13°10°123 mm
  4. Apr16°13°91 mm
  5. May20°17°75 mm
  6. Jun24°21°58 mm
  7. Jul28°23°35 mm
  8. Aug28°24°38 mm
  9. Sep24°20°103 mm
  10. Oct20°17°123 mm
  11. Nov16°13°161 mm
  12. Dec12°9°159 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Trsteno Arboretum.

Arboretum

Trsteno Arboretum is an arboretum in Croatia.

Seen from space, 21% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

45 species have been recorded around it: 19 plants, 1 fungi, 25 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European smoketree, St. John's Bread and Strawberry-tree.

The best time to walk is in May.

Arboretum Trsteno (by Pudelek)
Pudelek (Marcin Szala) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: May-Oct: Mo-Su 07:00-19:00; Nov-Apr: 08:00-16:00 · ticket required
  • Camping Trstenocampsite · 0.2 km · 11 within 10 km
  • Lafodia Hotel & Resortplace to stay · 4.5 km · 209 within 10 km
  • Zatonnearest town · 5.6 km in a straight line
  • Dubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 29 km in a straight lineCar hire at DBV airport (Dubrovnik)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.

Trsteno Arboretum 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 km3. Orašac – Slano, 2. Mokošica – Orašac
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 5shelters and huts within 6 kmGloriett and 4 more
  • 9viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmTuristički informativni ured
  • 10car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 kmCamping Trsteno, Camping Pod Maslinom, Camping Solitudo and 8 more
  • 209places to stay within 10 kmLafodia Hotel & Resort, Hotel Božica, Dubrovnik Backpackers Club and 206 more
  • 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees 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 Trsteno Arboretum.

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.

Peakyas114 mountains within 25 km
Bjelasnica1,396 m · 17 kmIgarska Glavica947 m · 20 kmRunjova Glavica938 m · 20 kmPerine Glavica1,128 m · 20 kmKurijela1,088 m · 20 kmPrnjevca1,007 m · 22 kmVosnik1,041 m · 22 kmPopov Las905 m · 23 km
Coastya8 beaches within 10 km
Uvala Poljice3.9 kmUvala Orsan4.2 kmUvala Suđurađ5.2 kmUvala Sapluni5.6 kmUvala Spila Rafona5.8 kmUvala Lozica8.9 kmUvala Seka9.0 kmUvala Sumartin9.8 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Vjetrenica15 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.

Arboretum Trsteno, Croatia
Modzzak · Public domain
Arboretum Trsteno-1
Modzzak · CC BY-SA 3.0
2018 The massive plane tree Trsteno HR
Marijana Miljas Đuračić · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Trsteno Arboretum

Croatia

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 45Species

Petka

Croatia · 10 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 11%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 459Species

See the guide

Ravna Vala

Bosnia and Herzegovina · 115 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 102Species

See the guide

Biogradska Gora

Montenegro · 134 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 165Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q579893) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species318 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, Coastya, Cavernyas

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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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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