City report · Cundinamarca, Colombia
Facatativá Air quality today
Air quality in Facatativá currently reads AQI 116 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
AQI 116
Air quality right now
Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 37.5
- tree cover
- 15.4%
- trees in this area
- 48.4K
- more trees needed
- 61.6K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Facatativá, Facatativa, Cundinamarca, Colombia (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Aug 10, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Facatativá · AQI 116 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups)
Facatativá's tree count comes to 48,381 trees across 12.57 km², 20 points below the 35% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 61,575 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Facatativá today: AQI 116, Unhealthy for sensitive groups
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 23:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 45 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 4 station cities within 45 km, e.g. Madrid and Soacha
Health signal
Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
PM2.5
37.5
PM10
22.2
NO₂
57.9
O₃
14.0
SO₂
19.2
CO
676.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise
- Windows
- Close them to keep the outside air out
- Mask
- Sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors
- Air purifier
- Run one, especially in bedrooms
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Facatativá's daily AQI at 61 on average, from 54 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 91 on Nov 4.
Where Facatativá stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Facatativá: Critically low
15.4% tree cover against a 35% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
48,381
Target trees
109,956
More trees needed
61,575
CO₂ if planted / yr
1,355 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Facatativá lost?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Facatativá has lost about 1,340 hectares of forest (about 1,900 football pitches): 8.6% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (85%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
2018: satellite photo from January 2018 of a 5 × 5 km area about 6 km southeast of the city center.
- Forest lost since 2001
- 1,340 haabout 1,900 football pitches
- Share of its forest
- 8.6%of what there was in 2000
- Cleared for good
- 1,140 hadeforestation: turned into farms, mines or towns
The worst year was 2007, when about 198 hectares of forest were lost.
Hectares of forest lost each year
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| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 155 ha | 11 ha | 166 ha |
| 2002 | 70 ha | 24 ha | 94 ha |
| 2003 | 32 ha | 3 ha | 34 ha |
| 2004 | 27 ha | 14 ha | 41 ha |
| 2005 | 53 ha | 12 ha | 65 ha |
| 2006 | 89 ha | 4 ha | 93 ha |
| 2007 | 191 ha | 7 ha | 198 ha |
| 2008 | 59 ha | 32 ha | 92 ha |
| 2009 | 133 ha | 23 ha | 156 ha |
| 2010 | 80 ha | under 1 ha | 81 ha |
| 2011 | 33 ha | 1 ha | 34 ha |
| 2012 | 56 ha | 20 ha | 76 ha |
| 2013 | 27 ha | 1 ha | 28 ha |
| 2014 | 28 ha | 6 ha | 34 ha |
| 2015 | 3 ha | under 1 ha | 3 ha |
| 2016 | 18 ha | 16 ha | 35 ha |
| 2017 | 7 ha | 2 ha | 9 ha |
| 2018 | 4 ha | under 1 ha | 4 ha |
| 2019 | 7 ha | under 1 ha | 7 ha |
| 2020 | 14 ha | 1 ha | 15 ha |
| 2021 | 10 ha | 3 ha | 13 ha |
| 2022 | 6 ha | 8 ha | 14 ha |
| 2023 | 3 ha | 9 ha | 12 ha |
| 2024 | 22 ha | 2 ha | 24 ha |
| 2025 | 11 ha | under 1 ha | 12 ha |
What is causing deforestation around Facatativá?
- Farms, pasture and plantationscleared for good84% · 1,130 ha
- Loggingcan grow back15% · 198 ha
Also: towns and roads, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 14,100 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 13,800 ha
- Overall change
- −266 haless forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Facatativá stayed about the same size, at about 13,800 hectares: new forest grew on about 202 hectares, and about 469 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA, Global Forest Change (GFC-2025-v1.13); causes: WRI/Google DeepMind drivers of forest loss; both CC BY 4.0, summed by Airleaf for each area. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Facatativá right now?
The latest reading for Facatativá shows an AQI of 116 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups), observed Nov 10, 23:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 4 ground-station cities within 45 km, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Sensitive groups should limit long or intense outdoor activity.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Facatativá today?
At AQI 116 (Unhealthy for sensitive groups): children, older adults and people with asthma or heart disease should cut down long or hard exercise. Windows: close them to keep the outside air out. Masks: sensitive groups: an N95 outdoors. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Facatativá been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Facatativá's daily AQI at 61 on average, from 54 on Nov 10 to an hourly peak of 91 on Nov 4. No day averaged above 100, the level where the air turns unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Facatativá lost since 2001?
Since 2001, the area within 10 km of Facatativá has lost about 1,340 hectares of forest (about 1,900 football pitches): 8.6% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (85%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Facatativá stayed about the same size, at about 13,800 hectares: new forest grew on about 202 hectares, and about 469 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Facatativá?
Facatativá has an estimated 48,381 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 15.4% tree cover, 20 percentage points short of the 35% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Facatativá need?
Facatativá needs roughly 61,575 more trees to close a 20-point shortfall against its 35% tree-cover target — about 1,355 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Facatativá's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality comes from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where one reports nearby, and otherwise, as here, from the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, which may differ from street-level monitors. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Facatativá; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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