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Yeomiji Botanical Garden

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57% trees around it and 422 species recorded.

71Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km57%
  • wild within 10 km89%
  • species recorded422
  • Altitude87 m

The forest around

57% 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 52%Grassland 12%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 30%Trees 57%Grassland 3%Water 25%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 12%Trees 48%Grassland 4%Water 36%Cropland 4%Built-up 8%Trees 44%Grassland 4%Water 42%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 5%57%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km52%
  • 1–3 km57%
  • 3–6 km48%
  • 6–10 km44%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees57%
  • Grassland3%
  • Water25%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up12%

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

422 species recorded.

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

Slender wild basil
Slender wild basilClinopodium gracile24 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ring-cup oak
Ring-cup oakQuercus glauca12 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pacific island flatsedge
Pacific island flatsedgeCyperus cyperoides11 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Keisotyo assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 3.0
Smooth sow-thistle
Smooth sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus11 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Osmorhiza aristata
Osmorhiza aristataOsmorhiza aristata10 recordsQwert1234 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hairy cat's ear
Hairy cat's earHypochaeris radicata9 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Eastern daisy fleabane
Eastern daisy fleabaneErigeron annuus9 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Garden vetch
Garden vetchVicia sativa8 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Queen coralbead
Queen coralbeadCocculus orbiculatus8 recordsCillas · CC BY-SA 4.0
Trichosanthes kirilowii
Trichosanthes kirilowiiTrichosanthes kirilowii8 recordsMichael Wolf · CC BY 2.5
Morus indica
Morus indicaMorus indica8 recordsDinesh Valke · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ficus erecta
Ficus erectaFicus erecta8 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

71out of 100

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

  • 57%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 89%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 422Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 87 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

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

  1. Jan9°6°50 mm
  2. Feb9°6°66 mm
  3. Mar11°8°90 mm
  4. Apr14°12°136 mm
  5. May18°15°141 mm
  6. Jun22°20°192 mm
  7. Jul26°24°240 mm
  8. Aug28°26°261 mm
  9. Sep24°23°185 mm
  10. Oct20°18°89 mm
  11. Nov16°13°72 mm
  12. Dec11°8°56 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Yeomiji Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden

Yeomiji Botanical Garden is an arboretum in South Korea.

Seen from space, 57% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 89% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

422 species have been recorded around it: 344 plants, 0 fungi, 78 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Slender wild basil, Ring-cup oak and Pacific island flatsedge.

The best time to walk is in October.

Yeomiji
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Get there and walk

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.

Yeomiji 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmJeju Olle trail 7, Ollegil 8, Ollegil 9
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km아왜낭목
  • 16shelters and huts within 6 km정자 and 15 more
  • 21viewpoints within 5 kmView of the Seonimgyo Bridge, 색달해안갯깍 주상절리대, 주상절리 and 18 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km주상절리관광안내소
  • 54car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 km글램핑빌리지
  • 190places to stay within 10 km해성민박, 별장민박, 중문에덴민박 and 187 more
  • 437restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Yeomiji 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.

Peakyas66 mountains within 25 km
Wollabong6.2 kmSanbangsan395 m · volcano · 9.5 kmWonmul Oreum9.9 kmSongaksan13 kmSaebyeororeum519 m · 14 kmHallasan1,947 m · volcano · 15 kmMoseulbong181 m · 15 kmGama Oreum17 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Daepo Jusangjeolli Cliff1.9 kmHallasan1,947 m · 14 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Sumeunmulbaengdui71 species · 11 km1100 Altitude Wetland61 species · 12 kmMuljangori-oreum wetland82 species · 25 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Bilemot Cave18 kmJeju Hallim Lava Tube Area20 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 km
Cheonjeyeon Waterfalls0.3 kmEongtto Waterfalls8.1 kmCheonjiyeon Waterfall13 kmJeongbang Waterfall15 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.

Yeomiji French Garden Jeju Island South Korea
Ron Clausen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Yeomiji Botanical Garden

South Korea

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 57%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 422Species

Nijinomatsubara

Japan · 336 km

  • 53Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 76Species

See the guide

Jeongipumsong Pine Tree

South Korea · 385 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • —Species

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Gyerim

South Korea · 388 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 113Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q486315) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,868 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here