{"id":"0909122o16","reading":"0909122o16","url":"https://read.dearwise.earth/land/0909122o16","name":"Nosara, Guanacaste","place":{"country":"Costa Rica","country_iso":"CR","region":"Guanacaste"},"area_ha":113.9,"centroid":[-85.621,9.9864],"geometry":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-85.626,9.9905],[-85.6175,9.992],[-85.615,9.985],[-85.6195,9.981],[-85.627,9.9835],[-85.626,9.9905]]]},"score":52,"verdict":"Cultivate","headline":"Workable land — the plan must come before the capital.","summary":"This 114-hectare parcel near Nosara, Nicoya, Guanacaste is workable land whose plan must come before the capital, scoring 52 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that hazard screening rates this district high for urban flood, coastal flood, earthquake, landslide, tsunami, wildfire. Its main strength is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover. The first move: ground-truth what the canopy actually is before assuming forest value.","pillars":[{"label":"Water","value":75},{"label":"Ecology","value":59},{"label":"Climate","value":null},{"label":"Pressure","value":null},{"label":"Soil","value":45}],"figures":[{"label":"Rain","value":"2,187","unit":"mm a year"},{"label":"Elevation","value":"53","unit":"m"},{"label":"Tree cover","value":"85.9","unit":"%"},{"label":"Records of life","value":"228","unit":"GBIF"},{"label":"Area","value":"114","unit":"ha"}],"findings":[{"kind":"Strength","finding":"Rainfall is high, and it falls in one season.","evidence":"2,187 mm of rain per year (CHIRPS, 2004 to 2024).","confidence":"clear sky"},{"kind":"Risk","finding":"Hazard screening rates this district high for urban flood, coastal flood, earthquake, landslide, tsunami, wildfire.","evidence":"6 of 11 screened hazards rate high in Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica (ThinkHazard/GFDRR, screening-grade).","confidence":"light haze"},{"kind":"Unknown","finding":"Most of the parcel reads as tree cover.","evidence":"86% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping).","confidence":"in fog"}],"first_move":{"action":"Ground-truth what the canopy actually is before assuming forest value.","verify":"Walk the stand: one species in rows is plantation; mixed ages and species with natural regeneration is forest. A botanist can confirm.","then":"Confirm tenure and boundaries against the legal record before relying on this reading."},"sources_read":["the species record","the place's memory","the corridor reference","the place lookup","the terrain","the rain record","the soil survey","the land-cover map","the surface-water archive","the forest history","the underground atlas","the siting geometry","the river trace","the population grid","the hazard screen","the seismic record","modis fire history","the satellite signature","the governance record","the territory register","the forest history","the 2020 forest map","the district boundaries","dengue cr"],"sources_silent":["the river and road trace","Sentinel-2","the radar","the infrastructure reach","osm adaptation","the heritage record","the governance record","the thermal read","the biomass map"],"read_at":"2026-10-15T19:38:44.021Z","signature":{"sha256":"b0516ec1e7a34e31191301f560a1e8e466b62bbbb3eb4312e75f2b42644b138f","signed_at":"2026-10-15T19:38:44.233Z"},"record":[{"id":"0909122o16","read_at":"2026-10-15T19:38:44.021Z","score":52,"verdict":"Cultivate"}],"full_reading":"https://read.dearwise.earth/api/v1/readings/0909122o16","note":"A first pass from orbit: not a survey, not a title search, not legal advice. Quote figures with their source and date."}