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La Fortuna, Alajuela

40 · Converted

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Water and ground

Forest and life

Climate and air

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Costa Rica · 100 ha

La Fortuna, Alajuela

Converted · Rebuild

Converted. Rebuilding it takes years.

40of 100range 25 to 54 · 79% sure

Condition of the land

The score, 0 to 100. 100 is land of its kind that people have left alone.

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40 reads converted (below 48). The range, 25 to 54, is where its two measures disagree; 79% of it stays converted. A site visit settles it.

This land has lost most of what it was. Bringing it back is slow.

Read from two measures

Unchanged35

How little people have changed it, from roads and buildings to fields and lights.

Unconverted44

How much of it is not fields, buildings, or missing the forest it would carry.

The score sits between the two.

Trees now 29%. Left alone, about 81%.

Read from orbit and public records, as a reason to go and look. It is not a certificate, an appraisal or a ruling on this land or the people who work it.

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The land's signature

Five pillars under the score, 0 at the centre to 100 at the rim: water, ecology, climate resilience, freedom from pressure and soil.

40Water100Ecology41Climate53Pressure0Soil54

Floor, 40Short of the floorTree cover, 29%

The dashed amber circle is the fair floor, 40; red is the shortfall below it. Dotted: the first signed reading.

Hazard screen

High 3 · Medium 5 · Low or very low 1 · No data 2

Urban floodhigh
Earthquakehigh
Wildfirehigh
River floodmedium
Landslidemedium
Volcanomedium
Cyclonemedium
Extreme heatmedium
Water scarcitylow
Coastal floodno data
Tsunamino data

Screened for San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica, not for this land: a planning prompt. A site study settles the land itself.

StrengthA watercourse runs through the parcel. A mapped river or stream crosses the parcel (Quebrada Habana).
RiskForest on this land has been cleared, most recently in 2016. 16% of it was moist forest that has been cleared and has not grown back, last in 2016 (JRC Tropical Moist Forest).
UnknownJurisdiction is part of the parcel. Costa Rica · Alajuela · San Carlos · La Fortuna — canton HDI 0.784 (2022, PNUD/UCR), 15,383 people in the governing unit.
First moveConfirm tenure and boundaries against the legal record before relying on this reading.

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From here

TERRA Watch tells you when this land changes. The report puts the reading on paper.

Verified from orbit · 23 Oct 2026 · 36 of 40 sources

Signed 23 Oct 2026 · sha256 ba8cd80c…1a96cb