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La Cruz, Guanacaste

94 · Mostly intact

The land from above

Water and ground

Forest and life

Climate and air

Place, rules and fit

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Costa Rica · 10 ha

La Cruz, Guanacaste

Mostly intact · Restore

Mostly intact. Plan the restoration around the water.

94of 100range 88 to 100 · 67% sure

Condition of the land

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

487896

94 reads mostly intact (78 to 95). The range, 88 to 100, is where its two measures disagree; 67% of it stays mostly intact. A site visit settles it.

This land has moved from its natural state, and it can come back.

Read from two measures

Unchanged88

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

Unconverted100

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

The score sits between the two.

Trees now 71%. Left alone, about 59%.

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.

If you know this land and the reading gets it wrong, tell us.

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.

94Water89Ecology56Climate41Pressure58Soil72

Floor, 40Short of the floorTree cover, 71%

The dashed amber circle is the fair floor, 40; red is the shortfall below it.

Hazard screen

High 3 · Medium 3 · Low or very low 2 · Not for this land 3

Earthquakehigh
Landslidehigh
Wildfirehigh
Volcanomedium
Cyclonemedium
Extreme heatmedium
Water scarcitylow
River floodvery low
Urban floodnothing built
Coastal floodabove the sea
Tsunamiabove the sea

Screened for La Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, not for this land: a planning prompt. A site study settles the land itself. Its lowest point is 23 m above the sea, out of reach of the rows marked "above the sea". Nothing is built on this land, so urban flood (a town's drains overflowing in heavy rain) does not apply.

StrengthA watercourse runs through the parcel. A mapped river or stream crosses the parcel (Río Cuajiniquil).
RiskA meaningful share of this land's tree cover has been cleared since 2000. About 9.1% of the parcel lost tree cover since 2000, most recently in 2007.
UnknownMost of the parcel reads as tree cover. 71% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping).
First moveBuild a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.

From each chapter

One finding from each part of the reading. Tap a line to open its chapter.

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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 4cf098db…a5d559