Public reading
671 ha · 19.543, -105.033 · Mexico
Good bones. The rest is work.
73rd percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 61 conservation priority
8 of 8 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm
The reading in full
This 671-hectare parcel near La Huerta, Región Costa Sur, Jalisco is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 64 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. 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.
Where the upside lies: Most of the parcel reads as tree cover. Tree cover can carry real conservation and carbon value, but satellite land-cover cannot tell natural forest from a monoculture plantation (oil palm, rubber, teak). Confirm which it is before assuming biodiversity or carbon value. A watercourse runs through the parcel. On-site water supports irrigation, livestock, and habitat and can lower water-supply costs — though it may carry buffer or setback rules worth checking. The parcel sits near protected land. Proximity to protected areas raises conservation value and can open eligibility for connectivity or buffer programs, but may also bring land-use restrictions.
The wider readings: The land is gently rolling. Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads. Biodiversity records are moderate. There is a reasonable but incomplete picture of local wildlife; a ground survey would sharpen any conservation or regulatory assessment. 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 parcel is relatively remote. Distance from roads and towns means lower encroachment pressure and more privacy, but higher transport and operating costs.
What the land is telling us: The change record here is thin — the canopy history did not fully resolve — so the trajectory is honestly unknown. The standing signals look sound, but calling the land stable would be an assertion, not a reading; treat its direction as a first field question. 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. 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 land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. Its clearest strength to build from is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover.
The ground and its cover
The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.
The verdict
La Huerta, Región Costa Sur, Jalisco
73rd percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 61 conservation priority
Five readings
Weakest: Soil
All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land.
Standing
Tropical · Neotropic · against 46 readings · 64th of all 100
Coverage
8 of 8 layers answered
Every pillar read from live data.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 76
Best-fit model
Ecolodge / retreat
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 920 mm of rain falls here in a year. 98% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground slopes 5.7° on average, enough to move water without tearing soil where roots hold it. 18 mapped watercourses cross the land (Arroyo Chamela). The nearest road is 4.2 km off, and the nearest settlement is 6.7 km away, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.2 °C and +13% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — rainfall up 14% over twenty years.
To help: keep the canopy whole; the loop is running the right way on its own.
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
671 hectares at La Huerta of rolling land around 81 m. The ground reads 98% under canopy. Water shapes it — 920 mm of rain a year, 18 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is San Mateo, 6.7 km away.
Fund conservation through low-footprint hospitality. Accessible and scenic beside standing habitat, with a hospitality fit of 76/100, this land can carry a small, low-footprint operation whose revenue funds the conservation.
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.
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
Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)
Occurrence records (count + top species)
Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality
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.
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