Puerto Jiménez, Puntarenas Province, 61301

The parcel from orbit

Finding the latest clear satellite pass…

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.

Reading the place

This 6-hectare parcel near Puerto Jiménez, Puntarenas Province, 61301 is workable land whose plan must come before the capital, scoring 54 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that the rainfall archive shows an unusually steep drying signal — verify before relying on it. Its main strength is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover. The first move: build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.

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

How it compares

Ranked against 46 readings · same thermal belt

31st percentile against all 100 readings so far — the cohort rank above is the fairer one; this is the wider one.

About typical for the 46 readings logged in Tropical · Neotropic. Ecology is its strongest signal here (66th percentile), climate resilience its weakest (9th). Rainfall is declining across the landscape to the south-west.

Percentiles compare this reading against the growing corpus of public TERRA readings in like land — not all land on Earth. They sharpen as the wall grows.

What to do

1. 01

   Build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.

   First dry season

   Water, 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.

2. 02

   Design to the 2050 climate projections rather than today's conditions.

   First year

   The 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.

3. 03

   Ground-truth what the canopy actually is before assuming forest value.

   First visit

   Satellite land-cover cannot separate natural forest from a monoculture plantation, and the difference decides the conservation and carbon value.

   Confirm on the ground · Walk the stand: one species in rows is plantation; mixed ages and species with natural regeneration is forest. A botanist can confirm.

4. 04

   Confirm soil and water on the ground, then design to what the land can carry.

   First visit

   The 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

• At the end of the dry season, where does water still hold on this land — and what would keep it there a month longer?
• Standing under the canopy, is it one species or many — and which parts would you protect rather than replant?
• 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.