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Trees & air quality in Uruguay
How much tree cover Uruguay's major cities have, what their air quality is right now, and how many more trees each one needs. Every report covers the same 2 km area, so the cities compare like for like.
- Cities tracked
- 5
- National forest cover
- 12.0%vs 30% target
- Worst air right now
- CentroAQI 40
5 cities in Uruguay
Montevideo
2 km around Centro
Tree cover
2%
68.6K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Salto
2 km around Centro
Tree cover
25%
14.7K
trees needed
to reach 30%
Maldonado
2 km radius
Rivera
2 km radius
Paysandú
2 km radius
Uruguay as a whole
12.0% of Uruguay was forested as of 2023, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 3.2B trees across 3.2M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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