Nigeria forest
Upper Orashi Forest Reserve
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30
100% of the land around it is trees.
- trees within 3 km100%
- wild within 10 km100%
The forest around
100% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km100%
- 1–3 km100%
- 3–6 km100%
- 6–10 km94%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees100%
- Grassland0%
- 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.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
When to walk
Best for walking from December to February.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan21°26 mm
- Feb23°52 mm
- Mar24°110 mm
- Apr24°162 mm
- May24°220 mm
- Jun23°330 mm
- Jul22°334 mm
- Aug22°319 mm
- Sep22°393 mm
- Oct23°252 mm
- Nov23°125 mm
- Dec22°33 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Upper Orashi Forest Reserve.
Nigerian Nature Reserve
Upper Orashi Forest Reserve is a forest in Nigeria.
Seen from space, 100% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
The best time to walk is from December to February.
Get there and walk
- Abuanearest town · 15 km in a straight line
- Port Harcourt International Airport (PHC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 51 km in a straight lineCar hire in Port HarcourtDiscover 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- marked trails within 5 km
- named and notable trees within 6 km
- picnic sites within 4 km
- shelters and huts within 6 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- car parks within 3 km
- campsites within 10 km
- places to stay within 10 km
- restaurants and cafés 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 Upper Orashi Forest Reserve.
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.
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Other forests nearby.
Upper Orashi Forest Reserve
Nigeria
- 60Forestyas Score
- 100%Trees
- 100%Wild
- —Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q15852212) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Birdyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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