Land Intelligence Report
Parroquia Nuevo Rocafuerte, Aguarico, Orellana
100 ha · -1.1371, -75.7389 · The water is the estate here.
The reading in full
This 100-hectare parcel near Parroquia Nuevo Rocafuerte, Aguarico, Orellana is ecologically strong land whose work is stewardship, not repair. It scores 82 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: Hazard screening rates this district high for river flood. A high screening class means the hazard must be taken into account in planning and design — it is a division-scale flag from mixed-vintage hazard sets, not a site assessment. Commission local hazard mapping before siting anything permanent.
Where the upside lies: The soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration. Carbon-rich soil holds water and nutrients well, supports higher yields and faster regrowth, and may qualify for soil-carbon programs. Most of the parcel reads as tree cover. Tree cover can carry real conservation and carbon value, but satellite land-cover cannot tell natural forest from a monoculture plantation (oil palm, rubber, teak). Confirm which it is before assuming biodiversity or carbon value.
The wider readings: Models project a warmer and wetter climate here by 2050. Expect a warmer and wetter future here; favour species and infrastructure that tolerate the projected range. Rainfall is very high. Abundant water supports productive growth but raises the risk of flooding, waterlogging, and nutrient leaching, so drainage and slope matter. Rainfall has also been rising, which can bring more intense wet seasons; plan drainage accordingly. 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 largest buildable bench is 90.11 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. 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: Read across the record, the land reads as stable: the canopy history shows no meaningful loss in a generation and the water signal is holding, which means the work is to build on a sound base rather than to reverse a decline. 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 ecologically strong land whose work is stewardship, not repair. Its clearest strength to build from is that the soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration.
Physical risk and adaptation
| Hazard | Category | Screening class | Adaptation mapped | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River flood | acute · climate-related | high | adaptation layer not read | watch |
| Urban flood | acute · climate-related | low | adaptation layer not read | quiet |
| Coastal flood | acute · climate-related | no data | adaptation layer not read | quiet |
| Earthquake | geophysical · not climate-related | medium | adaptation layer not read | watch |
| Landslide | acute · climate-related | low | adaptation layer not read | quiet |
| Tsunami | geophysical · not climate-related | no data | adaptation layer not read | quiet |
| Volcano | geophysical · not climate-related | no data | adaptation layer not read | quiet |
| Cyclone | acute · climate-related | very low | adaptation layer not read | quiet |
| Water scarcity | chronic · climate-related | very low | adaptation layer not read | quiet |
| Extreme heat | chronic · climate-related | medium | adaptation layer not read | watch |
| Wildfire | acute · climate-related | low | adaptation layer not read | quiet |
- Ground at or below 10 m
- 0 ha
- Under high classes
- 100 ha · 1 class
- Fire response
- not read
- Emergency response
- not read
Exposure as quantities, never as money: response minutes assume 40 km/h on rural roads, straight-line distance. The district class covers the whole parcel, so hectares under a high class are the parcel's own area.
Screening classes at district scale (ThinkHazard/GFDRR, hazard sets ~2015–2020, Aguarico, Orellana, Ecuador). Adaptation is mapped presence in OpenStreetMap within graded radii — the condition and design standard of the works are not read.A reading of “buffered” is not a reading of “safe”.
The verdict
The water is the estate here.
Parroquia Nuevo Rocafuerte, Aguarico, Orellana
Frontier tier · 40 conservation priority
Five readings
Weakest: Ecology
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
17 of 26 layers answered
Every pillar read from live data.
Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach +6.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 52
Best-fit model
Corridor anchor reserve
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 3,195 mm of rain falls here in a year. 100% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (2.9° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. By 2050 the models expect +1.2 °C and +6% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — the canopy record shows no meaningful loss in a generation.
Protect the keystone; hold the connection open. With 100% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 40, the leverage here is protection: secure the core so the connection it anchors stays open. To help: keep the canopy whole; the loop is running the right way on its own.
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 Parroquia Nuevo Rocafuerte of gentle land around 229 m. The ground reads 100% under canopy. Water shapes it — 3,195 mm of rain a year. Governed from Aguarico.
Protect the keystone; hold the connection open. With 100% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 40, the leverage here is protection: secure the core so the connection it anchors stays open.
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.
Who governs this land
Ecuador · Orellana · Aguarico
What the land is exposed to — and what stands against it
- River floodwatchscreens highadaptation layer not read
- Earthquakewatchscreens mediumadaptation layer not read
- Extreme heatwatchscreens mediumadaptation layer not read
- Ground at or below 10 m
- 0 ha
- Under high classes
- 100 ha · 1 class
- Fire response
- not read
- Emergency response
- not read
Exposure as quantities, never as money: response minutes assume 40 km/h on rural roads, straight-line distance. The district class covers the whole parcel, so hectares under a high class are the parcel's own area.
Screening classes at district scale (ThinkHazard/GFDRR, hazard sets ~2015–2020) read beside what OpenStreetMap has mapped within graded radii. Presence, not effectiveness: the condition of a levee or the crew of a fire station is not read. “Buffered” is not “safe”; “not read” is honest, not zero.
1 earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more within 100 km in 50 years, strongest M5.5 — most recent M5.5, 2003 (USGS).
What the record remembers
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.
- estimated
This parcel collects the water of its watershed— screening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)
- estimated
This parcel sends its water down Downstream flowpath10.1 km mapped below the parcel— screening hydrography (MERIT-Hydro ~90 m)
- official
This parcel answers to Aguarico
- official
Aguarico sits in Orellana
- official
Orellana sits in Ecuador
- estimated
This parcel is screened as exposed to River floodhigh (screening)— screening class at admin-division scale
- estimated
This parcel is screened as exposed to Earthquakemedium (screening)— screening class at admin-division scale
- estimated
This parcel is screened as exposed to Extreme heatmedium (screening)— screening class at admin-division scale
- 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
a standing block of forest
100% tree cover
- 2
catchment
its catchment
a sink: a large country drains through it
10 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 · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page · observed, measured from satellite or map data · estimated, from a model, not a measurement.
The forest here has held for a generation.
- recordedThis canopy has held: 100% cover in 2000, 0% 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 calm here is partly unmeasured.
- derivedThe pressure reading is near-perfect, but 3 of its instruments did not answer (roads, settlements, or fire).
- derivedQuiet data is not proven quiet land — near a town, an unread road is more often a data gap than true remoteness.
What to doVerify access and neighbours on the ground before banking the calm.
Bears on how much to trust the calm · medium confidence
More water is arriving — and arriving harder.
- observedThe twenty-year rain record moved +19.5% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
- estimatedThat energy leaves along a mapped 10.1 km downstream path — what this parcel's cover holds back, the people below never have to absorb.
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 82 against a conservation priority of 40.
- 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
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
holding
100% tree cover on 3,195 mm of rain; 0% of the tree cover lost since 2000.
Keep the canopy whole; the loop is running the right way on its own.
Reading the place
This 100-hectare parcel near Parroquia Nuevo Rocafuerte, Aguarico, Orellana is ecologically strong land whose work is stewardship, not repair, scoring 82 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that hazard screening rates this district high for river flood. Its main strength is that the soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration. The first move: ground-truth what the canopy actually is before assuming forest value.
Hazard screening rates this district high for river flood.
A high screening class means the hazard must be taken into account in planning and design — it is a division-scale flag from mixed-vintage hazard sets, not a site assessment. Commission local hazard mapping before siting anything permanent.
1 of 11 screened hazards rate high in Aguarico, Orellana, Ecuador (ThinkHazard/GFDRR, screening-grade).
The soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration.
Carbon-rich soil holds water and nutrients well, supports higher yields and faster regrowth, and may qualify for soil-carbon programs.
65.6 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, clay loam texture, pH 4.5 (ISRIC SoilGrids).
Most of the parcel reads as tree cover.
Tree cover can carry real conservation and carbon value, but satellite land-cover cannot tell natural forest from a monoculture plantation (oil palm, rubber, teak). Confirm which it is before assuming biodiversity or carbon value.
100% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping). Naturalness is not verified.
Models project a warmer and wetter climate here by 2050.
Expect a warmer and wetter future here; favour species and infrastructure that tolerate the projected range.
Projected change by 2050: +1.2 °C mean temperature, +6% rainfall. Exposure rated Moderate.
Rainfall is very high.
Abundant water supports productive growth but raises the risk of flooding, waterlogging, and nutrient leaching, so drainage and slope matter. Rainfall has also been rising, which can bring more intense wet seasons; plan drainage accordingly.
3,195 mm of rain per year. Up about 20% over 20 years.
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 10.1 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 229 m, mean slope 3°, 22 m of relief.
The largest buildable bench is 90.11 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.
91% of the parcel lies at or under 10°; largest contiguous piece 90.11 ha at about 228 m; 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).
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.
Ecuador · Orellana · Aguarico.
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
Read across the record, the land reads as stable: the canopy history shows no meaningful loss in a generation and the water signal is holding, which means the work is to build on a sound base rather than to reverse a decline.
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 ecologically strong land whose work is stewardship, not repair. Its clearest strength to build from is that the soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration.
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 intact habitat to secure, scoring 40 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 52/100) 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 intact habitat — the priority is to secure it, not rebuild it.
Standing natural forest is far cheaper to protect than to restore, and holding it inside a corridor keeps the connection open. Securing tenure and legal protection is where capital does the most here.
100% 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 52/100, drawing on standing forest. Site any building on the already-worked ground, not the habitat.
Capital moves
- 01
Secure this land first — through purchase, or a conservation easement that survives a change of owner.
Before committingIntact corridor habitat holds its value only while it stays intact; locking in protection before the land turns over is the move capital cannot undo.
Confirm on the ground · Confirm title and boundaries, then scope the conservation-easement and payment-for-protection instruments available in this jurisdiction.
- 02
Protect the standing forest and remove the active threats to it.
First visitThe habitat is already here; the work is to keep it — stopping clearing, fire, and hunting pressure holds far more value than any planting would add.
Confirm on the ground · Walk the boundary for signs of encroachment, fire, and hunting; agree the protection terms with neighbours who share the edge.
- 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 · Moderate
2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 1.2°C warmer than today's, with 6% more 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
Clay loam
Terrain & cover
Siting
Measured on ~10.0 m cells across 9,900 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
- 24.8 °C
- Rain, latest year (2024)
- 3,402 mm
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 24
- Longest dry spell
- 7 days
- Mean elevation
- 229 m
The rain row is one year alone — the Water panel's 3,195 mm is the long mean, and with the record up 20% in twenty years, recent years sit above it by design.
2050
- Temperature shift
- +1.2 °C+1.2 to +1.4 °C across 4 models
- Rainfall shift
- +6 %+2 to +12 % across 4 models
- Hot days (≥32 °C) / yr
- 25 (+1)
- Longest dry spell
- 6 days (-1)
- Exposure
- Moderate — a real but workable projected shift
- Resilience reading
- 65 / 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
Corridor anchor reserve
48 / 100 fitProtect the keystone; hold the connection open.
With 100% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 40, the leverage here is protection: secure the core so the connection it anchors stays open.
High-value habitat inside the connectivity network. The move is to secure it — purchase or easement — so the corridor it anchors stays unbroken.
Also consider · Watershed protection (30) · Ecolodge / retreat (22)
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 (52/100) 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
Ground-truth what the canopy actually is before assuming forest value.
First visitSatellite 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.
- 02
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.
- 03
Visit the land to confirm the reading and protect what already works.
First visitThe core systems read as sound; the priority is to keep them that way and avoid degrading them.
Confirm on the ground · Walk the parcel with the reading in hand and note where the ground agrees and disagrees with it.
Questions to sit with
- Standing under the canopy, is it one species or many — and which parts would you protect rather than replant?
- The soil is a real asset here — what use would build it further rather than spend it down?
- 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
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)
Per-cell slope and aspect (Horn), buildable share, largest contiguous bench
Upstream basin + downstream flowpath (screening hydrography)
Multi-hazard classes at admin-division scale (screening-grade; hazard sets ~2015–2020)
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, the infrastructure reach, osm adaptation, the governance record, the thermal read, the biomass map, the population grid, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
Generated Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:39:05 GMT · 19.0s · synthesized by TERRA.
Generated Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:39:05 GMT · synthesized by TERRA · Dear Wise Earth.