Monteverde ridge

At Santa Elena, Costa Rica, 145 hectares. 1513 metres up, the land keeps its own weather. 2,358 mm of rain falls across an average year. And it is rising — 43.1% wetter than twenty years ago, which is its own question. A river cuts the parcel — Río Peñas Blancas. By 2050 the models add about +1.5 °C here and 3% drier rain.

Access runs 0.09 km off; Santa Elena lies 3.23 km beyond. Forest holds 95% of the parcel; it is mostly intact. Life is well-recorded — 318,524 occurrences, Lampornis calolaemus and Colibri cyanotus among them. The soil survey comes back blank — a question for boots, not satellites.

This is land to steward, not to second-guess. Read it in person, then protect what already works. Start with a Land Brief.