Land Intelligence Report
Nunchía, Casanare, RAP Llanos
20 ha · 5.5432, -72.2184 · Workable land — the plan must come before the capital.
The reading in full
This 20-hectare parcel near Nunchía, Casanare, RAP Llanos is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. It scores 49 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: This area is highly exposed to projected climate change by 2050. Large shifts in temperature and rainfall can change what the land can support, so any plan should be built around the projected conditions, not current ones. A meaningful share of this land's tree cover has been cleared since 2000. Long-term loss points to historical or ongoing clearing pressure and a lower conservation baseline; confirm the legal status and whether clearing is still active. This ground has a recorded seismic history. Repeated strong earthquakes within reach shape how anything here should be built — seismic design codes, slope stability under shaking, and insurance all follow from it.
Where the upside lies: A watercourse lies close to the parcel. Nearby surface water improves access to irrigation and supply and adds habitat value, though rights and distance still affect how usable it is.
The wider readings: Rainfall is moderate. Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability. This parcel is a position in a watershed, not an island. What arrives here is decided upstream, and what happens here is felt downstream — land use on this parcel is water stewardship for everyone below it. Read the upstream land uses before trusting the water, and count the downstream neighbours before changing it. The land is gently rolling. Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads. The largest buildable bench is 10.58 ha. This is the piece that decides what fits: a single footprint, its access, and its services all have to land on contiguous ground. Everything beyond it is a second site, not an extension of the first. Little wildlife has been formally recorded here. A low record count usually reflects limited survey effort rather than low biodiversity, so a ground survey is needed before drawing conclusions. No satellite soil data is available for this parcel. Soil quality cannot be assessed remotely here, so a ground survey is needed before any agricultural or restoration decision. Road and town access are close. Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices. The human fabric around this land is measured, not assumed. Labour, emergencies, schooling, and electricity all run on these distances — they decide what daily life and operations here actually cost. Jurisdiction is part of the parcel. Permits, zoning, water, and roads run through these offices — knowing who governs the land is the first step of every plan that touches it.
What the land is telling us: The longer record suggests a land that has been drawn down rather than held: about 34% of its tree cover has been cleared since 2000, most recently in 2007. The cover is measurably coming back now — a land recovering, which is a workable base, but the history is the reason the foundational work comes first. Of the land's core processes, the water cycle reads as adequate to abundant, so the question is less supply than how well the land captures and holds what falls and community dynamics are barely recorded here — an absence of data, not necessarily of life. What orbit cannot see is what happens below the surface — soil biology, structure, and the carbon held in the ground — so treat those as the first things to confirm underfoot. Taken together, this is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse lies close to the parcel.
The verdict
Workable land — the plan must come before the capital.
Nunchía, Casanare, RAP Llanos
Frontier tier · 23 conservation priority
Four of five readings
Weakest: EcologyNot read: Soil
All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land. The unread pillars had their weight redistributed across the rest — reweighted, never guessed.
Standing
Not yet ranked — the wall is still too small for a fair cohort. It sharpens as readings land.
Coverage
17 of 27 layers answered
Nearly complete — gaps reweighted, not guessed.
Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach +7.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 53
Best-fit model
Restoration frontier
Fit from published rules over the indicators.
The land in numbers
Headline figures. The Why tab carries each reading in full, with its source and its date. “Not read” means the source had nothing for this parcel: a gap is named, never filled with a guess.
How this land works
About 1,895 mm of rain falls here in a year. 39% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground slopes 5.4° on average, enough to move water without tearing soil where roots hold it. 24 mapped watercourses cross the land (Río Tocaria), and what leaves it travels 3 km downstream before the mapped path ends. The nearest road is 0.6 km off, and the nearest settlement is 2.6 km away, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1 °C and -29% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Regenerating — cut after 2000, the cover is returning.
Change the trend; rebuild the base. Largely cleared (34% lost since 2000), this is frontier ground — the work is to secure it and rebuild cover from the base. To help: stop the clearing at the streams first: every metre of canopy kept along water holds the loop together.
The score is the footnote. What matters is the pattern above it: what arrives, what the ground does with it, what leaves, and which way that is moving.
This place
20 hectares at Nunchía of gentle land around 339 m. The ground reads 39% under canopy. Water shapes it — 1,895 mm of rain a year, 24 traced watercourses. 5,236 people within 5 km.
Change the trend; rebuild the base. Largely cleared (34% lost since 2000), this is frontier ground — the work is to secure it and rebuild cover from the base.
This is an outsider's reading, assembled from instruments and public records. It is where understanding begins, not where it ends — the land, its neighbours, and the people who know it hold the rest.
The parcel from orbit
Finding the latest clear satellite pass…
The satellite signature · since 2017
The ground has kept its character between 2017 and 2025.
Each year of satellite record is folded into one signature per 10 m of ground. Where the signature turned, the ground became a different kind of place — cleared, planted, built, burned, flooded or grown back. It says that it changed, never into what.
- Changed
- 0%
- Held, on average
- 0.95
Similarity of each cell, 2017 → 2025; the gold line is the parcel. 1,964 pixels at 10 m, cells of 13 m. AlphaEarth Foundations Satellite Embedding (Google / Google DeepMind).
Reads all 9 annual layers the first time, then keeps them.
Land like this
Other ground that reads like this parcel — on the wall, and around it.
On the wall
Comparing with the readings on the wall…
Across the landscape
Compares every 160 m of the 2025 layer around the parcel with its signature. Read once, then kept.
Reading the land's record…
The water’s position
What arrives here is decided upstream; what happens here is felt downstream. The map in the Land tab can draw both.
Screening hydrography, never a legal drainage determination.
The people around it
Who governs this land
Colombia · Casanare · Nunchía
What the land is exposed to — and what stands against it
7 earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more within 100 km in 50 years, strongest M6.5 — most recent M5.2, 2017 (USGS).
What the record remembers
The named places and features the public encyclopedia holds around this land: the recorded memory, not the whole memory.
- La Chaparrera5.5 km
No heritage features recorded within 10 km of this parcel.
Locations are deliberately withheld; presence is shown at landscape scale only. Recorded presence in the open public record only. Absence of information here is not evidence of absence — national heritage registries are the authority.
Relationships
A parcel is a node in living systems, not an island. Each line below is derived from this reading itself.
Each line is tagged with how it is known: estimated, from a model, not a measurement · observed, measured from satellite or map data · official, from a public or state record.
- estimated
This parcel collects the water of its watershed— screening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)
- estimated
This parcel sends its water down Downstream flowpath3.3 km mapped below the parcel— screening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)
- observed
This parcel is within reach of Río Tocarianearest mapped water 0.74 km
- official
This parcel answers to Casanare
- official
Casanare sits in Colombia
- observed
This parcel lives beside La Yopalosa2.62 km away · 5,236 people within 5 km
- official
This parcel stands on ground that has felt Seismic history7 quakes ≥ M5 within 100 km in 50 yr
Where it sits
A living system does not stop at the fence. The parcel is a node in each of these, and it plays a different part at each scale.
- 1
parcel
20 ha inside the boundary
forest and open ground, mixed
39% tree cover
- 2
catchment
its catchment
a sink: a large country drains through it
3 km of mapped path below
The threads
Where the readings connect. Each thread follows one chain of cause and consequence across the instruments, and ends in what it means for what you do.
Each line is tagged with how it is known: recorded, from the historical archive · observed, measured from satellite or map data · estimated, from a model, not a measurement · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page · scientific, from a published study.
This is a forest coming back, not one that never left.
- recordedCut and coming back: 33.5% went after 2000 (last in 2007), and the cover now reads 39% — the land is regrowing, which means young forest, not old.
What to doProtect the regrowth's momentum: young forest gains value fastest when simply left connected and unburned.
Bears on the land's living value · high confidence
More water is arriving — and arriving harder.
- observedThe twenty-year rain record moved +105.1% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
- estimatedThat energy leaves along a mapped 3.3 km downstream path — what this parcel's cover holds back, the people below never have to absorb.
- derivedNote the disagreement: the observed archive moved +105.1%, while the 2050 model says -29%. Neither cancels the other — the archive is what happened, the model is one projection. Design for the envelope: drainage for the wet record, storage for the dry projection.
What to doKeep or restore cover on the slopes and size drainage for pulses, not averages; verify culverts and crossings in the wet season.
Bears on this land and the people downstream · medium confidence
Strong land, standing on its own.
- derivedThe Land Score reads 49 against a conservation priority of 23.
- derivedIts value is intrinsic rather than positional — the network does not depend on it, which frees what it can be.
What to doPlans here answer to the land itself, not to a network obligation.
Bears on what a plan owes the landscape · medium confidence
This land comes with neighbours.
- scientific5,236 people live within 5 km — this land sits inside a living community.
- derivedThe neighbours are the labor pool, the early-warning system, and the social license — the project's first relationships are already living here.
What to doMeet the neighbours before the notary — what they know and want will shape everything here.
Bears on daily life and operating cost · medium confidence
The loops that govern it
Regeneration is not a feature added to land; it is a loop changing direction. These are the ones the readings can see, which way each is running, and where a hand changes it.
Forest and water
canopy → cloud and rain held → streams and soil moisture → canopy
running toward degradation
39% tree cover on 1,895 mm of rain; 33.5% of the tree cover lost since 2000, last in 2007.
Stop the clearing at the streams first: every metre of canopy kept along water holds the loop together.
Open ground and soil
bare or grazed ground → compaction → runoff → thinner soil
holding
61% open ground on a 5.4° average slope.
Keep the ground covered through the dry season; rested pasture and cover crops turn this loop around on gentle slopes.
The edge and the road
access → clearing at the edge → more edge → more access
running toward degradation
road 0.6 km, settlement 2.6 km; 33.5% tree cover lost since 2000.
Decide what the road is for before anything else: a gate, a planted edge and a written access rule are the cheapest interventions on this land.
Reading the place
This 20-hectare parcel near Nunchía, Casanare, RAP Llanos is workable land whose plan must come before the capital, scoring 49 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that this area is highly exposed to projected climate change by 2050. Its main strength is that a watercourse lies close to the parcel. The first move: design to the 2050 climate projections rather than today's conditions.
This area is highly exposed to projected climate change by 2050.
Large shifts in temperature and rainfall can change what the land can support, so any plan should be built around the projected conditions, not current ones.
Projected change by 2050: +1 °C mean temperature, -29% rainfall. Exposure rated High.
A meaningful share of this land's tree cover has been cleared since 2000.
Long-term loss points to historical or ongoing clearing pressure and a lower conservation baseline; confirm the legal status and whether clearing is still active.
About 33.5% of the parcel lost tree cover since 2000, most recently in 2007. It held 45% tree cover in 2000. Source: Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11.
This ground has a recorded seismic history.
Repeated strong earthquakes within reach shape how anything here should be built — seismic design codes, slope stability under shaking, and insurance all follow from it.
7 earthquakes ≥ M5 within 100 km in 50 years, strongest M6.5, most recent M5.2 in 2017 (USGS catalog).
A watercourse lies close to the parcel.
Nearby surface water improves access to irrigation and supply and adds habitat value, though rights and distance still affect how usable it is.
Nearest mapped watercourse is about 0.74 km away (Río Tocaria).
Rainfall is moderate.
Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability.
1,895 mm of rain per year. Nearest mapped watercourse is about 0.74 km away. The archive's 20-year trend reads about +105% — a swing that size deserves verification against local records before it informs any plan.
This parcel is a position in a watershed, not an island.
What arrives here is decided upstream, and what happens here is felt downstream — land use on this parcel is water stewardship for everyone below it. Read the upstream land uses before trusting the water, and count the downstream neighbours before changing it.
its own water runs 3.3 km downstream of it (MERIT-Hydro screening hydrography).
The land is gently rolling.
Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads.
Mean elevation 339 m, mean slope 5°, 51 m of relief.
The largest buildable bench is 10.58 ha.
This is the piece that decides what fits: a single footprint, its access, and its services all have to land on contiguous ground. Everything beyond it is a second site, not an extension of the first.
58% of the parcel lies at or under 10°; largest contiguous piece 10.58 ha at about 336 m; the ground faces south; read on ~10 m cells from the Terrarium DEM.
Little wildlife has been formally recorded here.
A low record count usually reflects limited survey effort rather than low biodiversity, so a ground survey is needed before drawing conclusions.
Only 0 biodiversity records nearby (GBIF, the global species-record archive).
No satellite soil data is available for this parcel.
Soil quality cannot be assessed remotely here, so a ground survey is needed before any agricultural or restoration decision.
The SoilGrids survey returned no data for this location.
Road and town access are close.
Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices.
About 0.57 km to the nearest road, 2.62 km to La Yopalosa.
The human fabric around this land is measured, not assumed.
Labour, emergencies, schooling, and electricity all run on these distances — they decide what daily life and operations here actually cost.
5,236 people live within 5 km (WorldPop 2020).
Jurisdiction is part of the parcel.
Permits, zoning, water, and roads run through these offices — knowing who governs the land is the first step of every plan that touches it.
Colombia · Casanare · Nunchía.
Confidence reflects the data behind each reading: high when clear passes or strong sources agree, medium on a partial or single-source signal, low where the data is sparse or indirect. A low-confidence reading usually needs one more clear pass, or a check on the ground.
What the land is telling us
The longer record suggests a land that has been drawn down rather than held: about 34% of its tree cover has been cleared since 2000, most recently in 2007. The cover is measurably coming back now — a land recovering, which is a workable base, but the history is the reason the foundational work comes first.
Of the land's core processes, the water cycle reads as adequate to abundant, so the question is less supply than how well the land captures and holds what falls and community dynamics are barely recorded here — an absence of data, not necessarily of life. What orbit cannot see is what happens below the surface — soil biology, structure, and the carbon held in the ground — so treat those as the first things to confirm underfoot.
Taken together, this is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse lies close to the parcel.
Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment
Standalone conservation value, outside the mapped network.
standalone value, outside the mapped network
Two lenses, two numbers: the Land Score reads this land's own body; conservation priority reads its position in the network. When they disagree, the gap itself is the finding.
This reads as a partial patch that extends the network's reach, scoring 23 out of 100 for conservation priority. It carries standalone value outside the mapped network — worth holding on its own terms. A small, low-footprint operation (fit 53/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.
The funding layer: a small, low-footprint operation sited on the already-worked ground, sized to carry the restoration — never spending the habitat it depends on.
This reads as a partial patch — enhancing it extends the network's reach.
A partly-forested parcel works as a stepping stone between the standing habitat around it: thickening its cover and connecting it to the neighbours widens the habitat that species can actually move through. No declared corridor is mapped here — the network in question is the nearby forest itself.
39% tree cover, 34% cleared since 2000.
A modest hospitality layer is possible, but it is not the strongest card.
In the regenerative model the lodging is a means, not the end: a low-footprint operation sited on the already-worked ground earns the revenue that funds the restoration and stewardship, while the core is left to recover. Kept small, it also gives the corridor local guardians with a reason to hold it.
Hospitality fit 53/100, drawing on the setting. Site any building on the already-worked ground, not the habitat.
Capital moves
- 01
Tie up the land before restoring it — purchase or an easement that holds through a sale.
Before committingRestoration is a multi-year investment; without secure tenure the connectivity it builds can be undone by the next owner.
Confirm on the ground · Trace the title and cadastral record, and check what conservation-finance the jurisdiction offers before committing.
- 02
Thicken cover along the parcel's edges and watercourses to widen what species can move through.
First yearAs a stepping stone or buffer, the parcel's contribution is its edges and riparian strips — the parts that link to the habitat next door.
Confirm on the ground · With an ecologist, identify the connecting strips worth planting first; confirm which watercourses cross the land at the end of the dry season.
- 03
Site a small, low-footprint hospitality operation on the already-worked ground to fund the stewardship.
Once the land is securedA modest operation on the already-worked ground earns the revenue that pays for the restoration and the guardians, without spending the habitat it depends on.
Confirm on the ground · Model the operation at a size the land can carry, keep it off the habitat, and confirm the zoning and any sustainable-tourism certification locally.
- 04
Set a wildlife baseline and re-read it — camera traps on the parcel's connecting edges.
OngoingFunders and partners judge conservation land by whether wildlife actually uses it; a repeatable baseline is what turns the thesis into evidence and steers the next round of capital.
Confirm on the ground · Run camera traps and species counts on a fixed schedule and track movement between the parcel and the habitat beside it.
The deployment reading is a screening lens layered on the Land Score — it points capital at the land where it builds the most connectivity, and each move is paired with the ground-truth step that confirms it.
The physical frame
Climate, water, soil, and shape — what the land is made of and what moves across it.
Climate · to 2050
Annual rainfall, 2004–2024 · mm
Exposure · High
2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 1.0°C warmer than today's, with 29% less rain. Expect is the honest verb: this is the middle of a range of futures, not a certainty — so design to the range, not to today.
Water
Río Tocaria
Soil · 0–30 cm
Source unavailable for this parcel.
Terrain & cover
Siting
Measured on ~10.0 m cells across 1,987 points of elevation. Screening geometry from open terrain data — confirm on the ground before siting anything.
The living surface
What grows here, what is being lost, and what presses on it.
Ecology
Pressure
Deforestation
INPE DETER (Amazônia)
Forest history · since 2000
Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11
Future · the horizons the engine has read
Now
- Mean temperature
- 25.5 °C
- Rain, latest year (2024)
- 3,065 mm
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 67
- Longest dry spell
- 36 days
- Mean elevation
- 339 m
The rain row is one year alone — the Water panel's 1,895 mm is the long mean, and with the record up 105% in twenty years, recent years sit above it by design.
2050
- Temperature shift
- +1.0 °C+0.7 to +1.1 °C across 4 models
- Rainfall shift
- -29 %-29 to +3 % across 4 models
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 75 (+8)
- Longest dry spell
- 17 days (-19)
- Exposure
- High — a hard projected shift — plan around it
- Resilience reading
- 35 / 100
The resilience reading is the climate pillar from the five dials above — one number, shown here beside the horizon it scores.
The headline projection is one model family (CMIP6 · MPI-ESM1-2-XR via Open-Meteo); the range beside it spans 4 CMIP6 HighResMIP models. All of them run one emissions scenario (SSP5-8.5) — several models, not several futures. The 2045–2049 window stands in for 2050, and expect is the honest word. Intermediate horizons (2030 · 2040) and 2100 are not shown because the engine has not read them — TERRA does not interpolate between measurements.
Best-fit regenerative model
Restoration frontier
32 / 100 fitChange the trend; rebuild the base.
Largely cleared (34% lost since 2000), this is frontier ground — the work is to secure it and rebuild cover from the base.
Land on the moving edge of clearing, or already cleared. Capital here has to change the trajectory — secure it, halt the loss, and restore cover from the ground up.
Also consider · Regenerative village (31) · Regenerative agroforestry estate (29)
A published, rules-based suggestion read from the parcel's own indicators — forest, water, slope, access, and its place in the network. It names the shape of project the land is already set up to carry; confirm it against tenure, soils, and what you know from the ground. These fit numbers rank whole project models against each other; the deployment lens's hospitality fit (53/100) is a different scale that asks only whether a small lodge could fund the stewardship here — the two need not match.
What to do
- 01
Design to the 2050 climate projections rather than today's conditions.
First yearThe land is strongly exposed to projected change, so species, water storage, and infrastructure should be chosen for the conditions ahead.
Confirm on the ground · Cross-check the projections against the memory of long-time residents on how the seasons have already shifted here.
- 02
Commission a ground soil survey before any agricultural or restoration decision.
Before committingSatellites cannot read soil biology, structure, or below-ground carbon — the very things that decide what will grow — and no survey data is available here.
Confirm on the ground · Take samples across the parcel for a lab test of organic carbon, texture, and pH, and dig a pit to read the profile and rooting depth.
- 03
Carry out a field biodiversity survey to see what the records miss.
First yearA thin record here usually reflects little survey effort, not little life; what actually lives on the parcel shapes both its value and its constraints.
Confirm on the ground · Have an ecologist survey across seasons; local naturalists and birders often already know the site.
- 04
Confirm soil and water on the ground, then design to what the land can carry.
First visitThe land is workable, but the plan has to be built to its limits rather than around a hoped-for use.
Confirm on the ground · Ground-truth the key constraints before committing to a use, then size the plan to them.
Questions to sit with
- If the seasons here shift as the models expect, which of your intentions for the land still hold — and which need rethinking now?
- Are you here to hold this land as it is, to work it, or to help it change — and does the reading above serve that intention?
- If the work succeeds, what do the water, the canopy, and the people around this land look like a generation from now — and what is the first condition that has to change for that to begin?
- Where does this reading disagree with what you have seen walking the land? That disagreement is the first thing to check on the ground.
These are not data gaps — they are the questions the data cannot answer.
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Sources & method · 17 layers→
Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)
Occurrence records (count + top species)
Recorded historic/heritage features within 10 km — generalized to counts, classes and distance bands; never coordinates
Named places and features of the surrounding landscape (titles + distances)
DETER-Amazônia change polygons
Nominatim reverse geocode
Terrarium elevation tiles
Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050
WorldCover 2021 v200
Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality
Global Forest Change (tree cover 2000 + annual loss)
Per-cell slope and aspect (Horn), buildable share, largest contiguous bench
Upstream basin + downstream flowpath (screening hydrography)
Gridded population 2020 (parcel + 5 km ring sums)
M ≥ 5 events within 100 km, past 50 years
Satellite Embedding v1, annual (64-dimensional per-pixel embedding) — baseline and latest year compared
Administrative hierarchy + structured facts of the governing unit
Every number above is public, open data — named, dated, and licensed. What TERRA does not publish is the lens: the weights, curves, and verdict thresholds that turn these layers into a Land Score. That judgment is calibrated from land walked on the ground, and it stays proprietary.
Unavailable for this parcel: Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach, osm adaptation, the soil survey, the governance record, the thermal read, the biomass map, the hazard screen, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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