Land Intelligence Report
Todos Santos, Municipio de La Paz, Baja California Sur
100 ha · 23.4501, -110.2254 · Foundational work first. The potential follows.
The reading in full
This 100-hectare parcel near Todos Santos, Municipio de La Paz, Baja California Sur is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access. It scores 19 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: Rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint. Low rainfall limits what can be grown without irrigation and raises the cost and importance of water storage and supply. The rainfall archive shows an unusually steep drying signal — verify before relying on it. A swing this large more often reflects a data artifact or measurement change than real climate; water planning should wait on local records rather than build on this number. Dry spells are projected to run about 197 days by 2050. A long rain-free stretch — not the yearly total — is what empties soil moisture and storage; size water storage and choose drought-tolerant planting to the dry spell, not the annual average. 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.
The wider readings: The land is projected to see roughly 167 hot days a year by 2050. Many days above 32 °C stress crops, livestock, workers, and unshaded ground; favour heat-tolerant species, shade, and water retention, and plan for cooling and storage. 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 flat. Flat ground is easy to build on, farm, and mechanize, though low flat land can drain poorly and should be checked for waterlogging. The area has a rich record of documented wildlife. High biodiversity adds conservation value, may bring species-protection rules, and can support eco-tourism or habitat-credit programs. Soil organic carbon is low. Low-carbon soil is typically depleted or sandy; building fertility for productive use takes time, cover crops, and organic inputs. 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 land reads as holding rather than actively regenerating: the standing cover is intact, but the water or vegetation signal is under strain, so the trajectory turns on how the coming dry years are managed. Of the land's core processes, the water cycle is the binding constraint — rainfall is low, so what the land can carry is set by how water is stored and held and community dynamics look rich, with a deep record of documented life nearby. 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 land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access.
The verdict
Foundational work first. The potential follows.
Todos Santos, Municipio de La Paz, Baja California Sur
Frontier tier · 29 conservation priority
Five readings
Weakest: Water
All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land.
Standing
Not yet ranked — the wall is still too small for a fair cohort. It sharpens as readings land.
Coverage
15 of 23 layers answered
Every pillar read from live data.
Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, osm adaptation +5.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 48
Best-fit model
Coastal buffer · blue–green
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 259 mm of rain falls here in a year. 45% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (2.6° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 14 mapped watercourses cross the land, and what leaves it travels 7 km downstream before the mapped path ends. A road runs against the boundary, and settlement sits within a kilometre, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +2 °C and -2% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — the canopy has held while the rain record fell -62.2%.
Protect the blue–green edge. Low-lying at 32 m, this reads as a coastal or wetland edge — an inference from elevation and water signals, not a measured shoreline distance, so confirm how near the water actually is. If it holds, the play is the buffer: protect and restore it for blue carbon (the carbon coastal wetlands lock away), storm defence, and nursery habitat. To help: plant along the watercourses and the ridge: canopy there returns the most water to the rest.
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
100 hectares at Todos Santos of gentle land around 32 m. The ground reads 45% under canopy, 35% built. Water shapes it — 259 mm of rain a year, 14 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Todos Santos, 0 km away, governed from Municipio de La Paz.
Protect the blue–green edge. Low-lying at 32 m, this reads as a coastal or wetland edge — an inference from elevation and water signals, not a measured shoreline distance, so confirm how near the water actually is. If it holds, the play is the buffer: protect and restore it for blue carbon (the carbon coastal wetlands lock away), storm defence, and nursery habitat.
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…
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
“Not read” means nothing of that kind is mapped within the search radius. That is a gap in the map, not a zero.
Who governs this land
México · Baja California Sur · Municipio de La Paz
What the land is exposed to — and what stands against it
1 earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more within 100 km in 50 years, strongest M5 — most recent M5, 2009 (USGS).
What the record remembers
The named places and features the public encyclopedia holds around this land: the recorded memory, not the whole memory.
- Todos Santos, Baja California Sur0.3 km
- Todos Santos (Baja California Sur)0.4 km
- Todos Santos Airstrip5.9 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 · official, from a public or state record · observed, measured from satellite or map data.
- estimated
This parcel collects the water of Its watershed— screening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)
- estimated
This parcel sends its water down Downstream flowpath7.2 km mapped below the parcel— screening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)
- official
This parcel answers to Municipio de La Paz292,241 people
- official
Municipio de La Paz sits in Baja California Sur
- official
Baja California Sur sits in México
- observed
This parcel lives beside Todos Santos0 km away
- official
This parcel stands on ground that has felt Seismic history1 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
100 ha inside the boundary
forest and open ground, mixed
45% tree cover
- 2
catchment
its catchment
a sink: a large country drains through it
7 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.
The forest here has held for a generation.
- recordedThis canopy has held: 3% cover in 2000, 0.9% lost since, none of it recent.
What to doThe work here is keeping, not fixing — and the first walk should confirm the stand is as intact up close as it reads from orbit.
Bears on the land's living value · high confidence
The water here is thinning.
- observedThe twenty-year rain record moved -62.2% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
- estimatedDry spells head toward ~197 days by 2050 — water security, storage, and drought-tolerant planting become the design constraints here.
What to doPrice water storage into any plan and verify the dry-season sources on the ground.
Bears on any plan that needs water · medium confidence
Heat is the trend to plan against here.
- estimatedHot days head from ~53 to ~167 a year by 2050.
- derivedThat reshapes what can be farmed, when work happens outdoors, and what shade and water infrastructure cost.
What to doShade, water, and heat-tolerant species are not upgrades here — they are the baseline design.
Bears on any plan with people or crops outdoors · medium confidence
This land comes with neighbours.
- derivedThe nearest hospital or clinic is 0.2 km away — services are within a working day's reach.
- 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 regeneration
45% tree cover on 259 mm of rain; 0.9% of the tree cover lost since 2000, last in 2014.
Plant along the watercourses and the ridge: canopy there returns the most water to the rest.
Open ground and soil
bare or grazed ground → compaction → runoff → thinner soil
holding
55% open ground on a 2.6° average slope, 1% cropped.
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
holding
road 0.1 km, settlement 0 km; 0.9% 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 100-hectare parcel near Todos Santos, Municipio de La Paz, Baja California Sur is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access, scoring 19 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint. The first move: build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.
Rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint.
Low rainfall limits what can be grown without irrigation and raises the cost and importance of water storage and supply.
259 mm of rain per year — below the roughly 1,000 mm rain-fed agriculture usually needs.
The rainfall archive shows an unusually steep drying signal — verify before relying on it.
A swing this large more often reflects a data artifact or measurement change than real climate; water planning should wait on local records rather than build on this number.
The archive's linear trend reads about 62% lower over 20 years (2004–2024) — outside the range the engine treats as dependable.
Dry spells are projected to run about 197 days by 2050.
A long rain-free stretch — not the yearly total — is what empties soil moisture and storage; size water storage and choose drought-tolerant planting to the dry spell, not the annual average.
Longest yearly run of days under 1 mm of rain projected near 197 days longer than today's 149-day spell (Open-Meteo daily climate).
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: +2 °C mean temperature, -2% rainfall. Exposure rated High.
The land is projected to see roughly 167 hot days a year by 2050.
Many days above 32 °C stress crops, livestock, workers, and unshaded ground; favour heat-tolerant species, shade, and water retention, and plan for cooling and storage.
About 167 days a year with a daily high of 32 °C or more by the 2050 horizon up from about 53 today (Open-Meteo daily climate).
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 7.2 km downstream of it (MERIT-Hydro screening hydrography).
The land is flat.
Flat ground is easy to build on, farm, and mechanize, though low flat land can drain poorly and should be checked for waterlogging.
Mean elevation 32 m, mean slope 3°, 50 m of relief.
The area has a rich record of documented wildlife.
High biodiversity adds conservation value, may bring species-protection rules, and can support eco-tourism or habitat-credit programs.
6,537 biodiversity records nearby, including Icterus cucullatus and Zenaida asiatica (GBIF, the global species-record archive).
Soil organic carbon is low.
Low-carbon soil is typically depleted or sandy; building fertility for productive use takes time, cover crops, and organic inputs.
7.7 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, sandy loam texture, pH 8 (ISRIC SoilGrids).
Road and town access are close.
Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices.
About 0.07 km to the nearest road, 0 km to Todos Santos.
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.
nearest hospital or clinic 0.2 km (St. Lukes); airstrip 6 km.
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.
México · Baja California Sur · Municipio de La Paz — 292,241 people in the governing unit.
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 land reads as holding rather than actively regenerating: the standing cover is intact, but the water or vegetation signal is under strain, so the trajectory turns on how the coming dry years are managed.
Of the land's core processes, the water cycle is the binding constraint — rainfall is low, so what the land can carry is set by how water is stored and held and community dynamics look rich, with a deep record of documented life nearby. 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 land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access.
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 29 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 48/100) 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.
45% tree cover.
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 48/100, drawing on standing forest. 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 2.0°C warmer than today's, with 2% 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
Soil · 0–30 cm
Sandy loam
Terrain & cover
The living surface
What grows here, what is being lost, and what presses on it.
Ecology
Icterus cucullatus · Zenaida asiatica · Cathartes aura · Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus
Pressure
Forest history · since 2000
Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11
Future · the horizons the engine has read
Now
- Mean temperature
- 23.1 °C
- Rain, latest year (2024)
- 37 mm
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 53
- Longest dry spell
- 149 days
- Mean elevation
- 32 m
The rain row is one year alone — the Water panel's 259 mm is the long mean, and with the record down 62% in twenty years, recent years sit below it by design.
2050
- Temperature shift
- +2.0 °C+1.6 to +2.0 °C across 4 models
- Rainfall shift
- -2 %-2 to +22 % across 4 models
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 167 (+114)
- Longest dry spell
- 197 days (+48)
- Exposure
- High — a hard projected shift — plan around it
- Resilience reading
- 23 / 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
Coastal buffer · blue–green
50 / 100 fitProtect the blue–green edge.
Low-lying at 32 m, this reads as a coastal or wetland edge — an inference from elevation and water signals, not a measured shoreline distance, so confirm how near the water actually is. If it holds, the play is the buffer: protect and restore it for blue carbon (the carbon coastal wetlands lock away), storm defence, and nursery habitat.
Low-lying coastal or wetland ground where mangrove, marsh, and dry forest meet the sea. Protect and restore the buffer — blue carbon, storm defence, nursery habitat.
Also consider · Regenerative village (43) · Regenerative agroforestry estate (26)
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 (48/100) is a different scale that asks only whether a small lodge could fund the stewardship here — the two need not match. Two theses share this ground: this lens reads its low wet edge — the buffer to restore; the deployment lens reads its standing patches — the stepping stones. One parcel holds both, so walk it to see which dominates, and let the first money follow that.
What to do
- 01
Build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.
First dry seasonWater, not the yearly total, is the limiting factor here; storage and drought-tolerant choices decide what the land can carry.
Confirm on the ground · Measure the springs, wells, and watercourses at the end of the dry season, when supply is at its lowest — that is the number to plan against.
- 02
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.
- 03
Start with a ground survey, then sequence the foundational work — water, then soil, then access.
First yearThis is the longest game; the early foundational work is what makes everything downstream possible.
Confirm on the ground · Survey the parcel, then stage the work by permanence — water and structure first, plantings last.
Questions to sit with
- At the end of the dry season, where does water still hold on this land — and what would keep it there a month longer?
- 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 · 15 layers→
Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)
Occurrence records (count + top species)
Nearest hospital, school, fuel, airport, port, power grid
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)
Nominatim reverse geocode
Terrarium elevation tiles
Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050
SoilGrids v2.0 (SOC, pH, sand, clay; 0–30 cm)
WorldCover 2021 v200
Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality
Global Forest Change (tree cover 2000 + annual loss)
Upstream basin + downstream flowpath (screening hydrography)
M ≥ 5 events within 100 km, past 50 years
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, osm adaptation, the governance record, the thermal read, the population grid, the hazard screen, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
Generated Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:16:20 GMT · 19.1s · synthesized by TERRA.
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