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Bahía Ballena, Puntarenas

95 · 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 · 588 ha

Bahía Ballena, Puntarenas

Mostly intact · Restore

Mostly intact, with restoration work still to do.

95of 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.

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95 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.

10% of the area read is open water. The score reads only the land.

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

Read from two measures

Unchanged90

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 98%. Left alone, about 80%.

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.

95Water90Ecology84Climate57Pressure54Soil54

Floor, 40Short of the floorTree cover, 97%

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

Hazard screen

High 6 · Medium 2 · Low or very low 3

Urban floodhigh
Coastal floodhigh
Earthquakehigh
Landslidehigh
Tsunamihigh
Volcanohigh
Extreme heatmedium
Wildfiremedium
Cyclonelow
River floodvery low
Water scarcityvery low

Screened for Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, not for this land: a planning prompt. A site study settles the land itself.

StrengthForest is growing back on 10% of this land. 10% regrowth after clearing.
RiskAbout 7% of the parcel is permanently under water. 7% permanent open water, plus 3% under seasonal water (JRC Global Surface Water, 1984–2021).
UnknownMost of the parcel reads as tree cover. 88% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping).
First moveMap how water moves and stands across the parcel before siting anything on it.

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 · 34 of 40 sources

Signed 23 Oct 2026 · sha256 78eee214…ea0086