NatureTrunk diameter
Tree with the widest trunk
Record
11.62 m
38.12 ft
- Record holder
- Árbol del Tule
This diameter includes buttressing. A more accurate mean diameter for this tree is 9.38 m.
What to remember
In the church grounds of Santa María del Tule, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, stands a Montezuma cypress whose trunk measures 11.62 m across. No known tree has a stouter trunk.
The figure needs a caveat: those 11.62 m include buttressing. A more accurate mean diameter for the tree is 9.38 m.
The species, Taxodium mucronatum, is called ahuehuete in Nahuatl, meaning "old man of the water". The tree stands east of the city of Oaxaca, on the road to Mitla. In 2001 it was placed on a UNESCO tentative list of World Heritage Sites, and it was removed from that list in 2013.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of superlative trees” (revision used 1374781715). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Nsaum75, Photo licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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