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World's Largest Cashew Tree

Wolfhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0

16% trees around it and 19 species recorded.

40Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km16%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded19

The forest around

16% 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%Mangroves 5%Shrubland 8%Grassland 8%Wetland 1%Water 27%Bare ground 3%Built-up 32%Trees 16%Mangroves 0%Shrubland 16%Grassland 7%Wetland 3%Water 54%Bare ground 0%Built-up 3%Trees 18%Shrubland 18%Grassland 6%Wetland 0%Water 53%Bare ground 2%Built-up 3%Trees 16%Shrubland 19%Grassland 7%Wetland 1%Water 54%Bare ground 2%Built-up 1%16%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km17%
  • 1–3 km16%
  • 3–6 km18%
  • 6–10 km16%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees16%
  • Mangroves0%
  • Shrubland16%
  • Grassland7%
  • Wetland3%
  • Water54%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up3%

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

19 species recorded.

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

Cashew
CashewAnacardium occidentale7 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Silk cottontree
Silk cottontreeCochlospermum vitifolium4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coco Plant
Coco PlantChrysobalanus icaco3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Mandevilla moricandiana
Mandevilla moricandianaMandevilla moricandiana3 recordsEdivan De Souza · CC BY 4.0
Coinvine
CoinvineDalbergia ecastaphyllum2 recordsPancrat · CC BY-SA 3.0
Guapira pernambucensisGuapira pernambucensis3 records
Handroanthus impetiginosumHandroanthus impetiginosum2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

40out of 100

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

  • 16%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 19Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from August to December.

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

  1. Jan28°26°85 mm
  2. Feb29°27°95 mm
  3. Mar29°27°142 mm
  4. Apr29°27°180 mm
  5. May28°26°158 mm
  6. Jun28°26°209 mm
  7. Jul27°25°145 mm
  8. Aug27°25°63 mm
  9. Sep27°25°32 mm
  10. Oct28°25°19 mm
  11. Nov28°26°16 mm
  12. Dec28°26°26 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

World's Largest Cashew Tree.

Largest known cashew tree

World's Largest Cashew Tree is a notable tree in Brazil.

Seen from space, 16% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

19 species have been recorded around it: 7 plants, 0 fungi, 11 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cashew, Silk cottontree and Coco Plant.

The best time to walk is from August to December.

Maior cajueiro do mundo 3
Wolfhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Village do Solplace to stay · 0.1 km · 58 within 10 km
  • Nísia Florestanearest town · 16 km in a straight line
  • Rio Grande do Norte/São Gonçalo do Amarante–Governador Aluízio Alves International Airport (NAT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 35 km in a straight lineCar hire at NAT airport (Natal)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.

World's Largest Cashew Tree 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

  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 22car parks within 3 km
  • 58places to stay within 10 kmVillage do Sol, Pousada Esquina do Sol, Apart Hotel Caravelas and 55 more
  • 21restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 World's Largest Cashew Tree.

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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Morro do Careca10 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lagoa do Bonfim7.1 km² · 9.2 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.

Maior cajueiro do mundo 1
Wolfhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cajueiro de Pirangi, Rio Grande do Norte
Flaviohmg · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tronco principal do maior cajueiro do mundo no Rio Grande do Norte.
Andrepimentasc · CC BY-SA 3.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q911662) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species98 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, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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