5,428 ha · -25.086, -66.216 · Argentina
Real potential, once the plan is clear.
11th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 9 conservation priority
14 of 26 sources answered, each named and dated ↓ · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: osm_overpass, sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc…
Three things to know
The area has a rich record of documented wildlife.
3,357 biodiversity records nearby, including Cyanoliseus patagonus and Hirundinea ferruginea (GBIF, the global species-record archive).
clear sky
Rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint.
846 mm of rain per year — below the roughly 1,000 mm rain-fed agriculture usually needs.
clear sky
The rainfall archive shows an unusually steep drying signal — verify before relying on it.
The archive's linear trend reads about 111% lower over 20 years (2004–2024) — outside the range the engine treats as dependable.
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First move · first dry season
Build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.
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.
then: Design roads and structures to the contour, and get a geotechnical and erosion assessment before any earthworks.
One measurement per instrument, each drawn to its own scale. Hover a mark for the reading behind it.
Rain · 21 years
Down 111.2% over twenty years. Open-Meteo.
The ground and its cover
ESA WorldCover. It cannot tell natural forest from plantation.
Elevation & slope
2,343–3,228 m across the parcel. AWS terrain tiles.
Climate to 2050
From today's 13.4 °C. Expect is the honest word: this is a projection.
Species records
Log scale. A count this size also measures survey effort, not only life. GBIF.
Access
OpenStreetMap.
Where the parcel sits between securing it and hosting people on it, and the project that fits it best.
Best-fit model
Guard the headwaters; study what they hold.
Standalone conservation value, outside the mapped network.
Drawing the film…
The film
The place, the score, the five pillars and three findings, set over contour lines traced from this parcel’s own elevation. Every figure on screen is this reading’s; the last finding is the one it is least sure of. Nothing in it is generated.
vertical · drawn in your browser from this reading
Go deeper
Everything the instruments read about this land, in its own words: the narrative, the maps, the evidence card by card, the 2050 window, what to do first, an analyst to ask, and all 26 sources, each named and dated.
The reading in full
This 5,428-hectare parcel near Municipio de Cachi, Cachi, Salta is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. It scores 47 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 127 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. The terrain is steep, which constrains construction and raises erosion risk. Steep slopes increase building and road costs, limit machinery access, and make the land more prone to erosion and landslides. 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. 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.
The wider readings: 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 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. 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 workable land whose plan must come before the capital.
The ground and its cover
The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.
The verdict
Municipio de Cachi, Cachi, Salta
11th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 9 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
Neotropic · against 101 readings · 11th of all 115
Coverage
14 of 26 layers answered
Every pillar read from live data.
Silent: the river and road trace, Sentinel-2, the radar +9.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 53
Best-fit model
Upper-watershed research station
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 846 mm of rain falls here in a year. 3% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (4.5° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 13% of the parcel is cropped, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +0.9 °C and +13% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — the canopy has held while the rain record fell -111.2%.
Guard the headwaters; study what they hold. At 2,690 m with 3% tree cover, this reads as intact montane headwater forest — high-value habitat whose biodiversity and water function justify guarding it and studying what it holds. 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
5,428 hectares at Municipio de Cachi of strongly rising land around 2,690 m. The ground reads 3% under canopy, 13% worked as cropland. Water shapes it — 846 mm of rain a year. 5,836 people within 5 km, governed from Municipio de Cachi.
Guard the headwaters; study what they hold. At 2,690 m with 3% tree cover, this reads as intact montane headwater forest — high-value habitat whose biodiversity and water function justify guarding it and studying what it holds.
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.
Occurrence records (count + top species)
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)
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: 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, the siting geometry, the hazard screen, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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