1st percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 27 conservation priority
Water
not read
Soil
not read
Ecology
33
Climate
not read
Pressure
68
7 of 9 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: open_meteo_climate, soilgrids
The reading in full
This 709-hectare parcel near Nuquí, Pacífico Norte, Chocó is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access. It scores 34 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: About 58% of the parcel is permanently under water. This area cannot be built on or farmed without major drainage or fill work, so it reduces the usable land and the cost of developing it.
Where the upside lies: 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 wider readings: The land is flat. Flat ground is easy to build on, farm, and mechanize, though low flat land can drain poorly and should be checked for waterlogging. The area has a rich record of documented wildlife. High biodiversity adds conservation value, may bring species-protection rules, and can support eco-tourism or habitat-credit programs. No satellite soil data is available for this parcel. Soil quality cannot be assessed remotely here, so a ground survey is needed before any agricultural or restoration decision.
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, community dynamics look rich, with a deep record of documented life nearby. 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 that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.
The ground and its cover
2 km
Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles
2 km
Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 · ESA / Copernicus
The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.
The verdict
34out of 100 · Land ScoreReclaim
A long game. The land can return.
Nuquí, Pacífico Norte, Chocó
ReclaimCultivateRestoreAnchor
1st percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 27 conservation priority
Two of five readings
Water—not read
Soil—not read
Ecology
33watch
Climate—not read
Pressure
68strong
Weakest: EcologyNot read: Water, Soil, Climate
All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land. The unread pillars had their weight redistributed across the rest — reweighted, never guessed.
Standing
1stpercentile
Tropical · Neotropic · against 46 readings · 4th of all 100
Coverage
35%
weight read
7 of 9 layers answered
Thinly read; too little for a firm verdict.
Silent: the rain record, the soil survey.
Where the capital goes
27/ 100 priority
Frontierhospitality fit 43
Best-fit model
Coastal buffer · blue–green
62 / 100
Fit from published rules over the indicators.
The land in numbers
Area
709ha
Elevation
-2m
-14–11 m
Slope
0.5°
Buildable bench
not read
Forest cover
25%
Canopy height
not read
Rainfall
not read
Warming to 2050
not read
Soil carbon
not read
Nearest road
not read
Species records
2,264records
GBIF, the global species archive
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
25% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (0.5° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 27 mapped watercourses cross the land (Río Panguí, Río Nuquí). Settlement sits within a kilometre, which is the pressure the edge lives with.
To help: keep the ground covered through the dry season; rested pasture and cover crops turn this loop around on gentle slopes.
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
709 hectares at Nuquí of gentle land around -2 m. The ground reads 25% under canopy, 3% built. Water shapes it — 27 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Nuquí, 0.35 km away.
Its vocationbuffer
Protect the blue–green edge. Low-lying at -2 m, this reads as a coastal or wetland edge — an inference from elevation and water signals, not a measured shoreline distance, so confirm how near the water actually is. If it holds, the play is the buffer: protect and restore it for blue carbon (the carbon coastal wetlands lock away), storm defence, and nursery habitat.
-2 m elevation25% forest0.5° sloperiver on siteFrontier tier — outside the mapped network
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.
The parcel from orbit
Finding the latest clear satellite pass…
The land, in context
Reading the land's record…
Relationships
A parcel is a node in living systems, not an island. Each line below is derived from this reading itself.
Each line is tagged with how it is known: observed, measured from satellite or map data · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page.
observed
This parcel is crossed by Río Panguí
observed
This parcel is within reach of Río Nuquí
observed
This parcel lives beside Nuquí0.35 km away
derived
This parcel is read against Tropical · Neotropicp1 of 46 readings
The threads
Where the readings connect. Each thread follows one chain of cause and consequence across the instruments, and ends in what it means for what you do.
Each line is tagged with how it is known: recorded, from the historical archive · observed, measured from satellite or map data · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page.
Independent instruments agree: water stands on this land.
recordedThe satellite water archive has watched 6.3% of this parcel go seasonally wet since 1984.
observedA watercourse crosses the parcel itself.
observedThe ground is low and nearly level (-2 m, 0.5° slope) — water that arrives has nowhere to drain to.
derived3 separate signals point the same way — this is not one sensor's opinion.
What to doSite anything permanent off the wet ground, and walk the parcel in the rainy season before believing any dry-season visit.
Bears on where anything gets built · high confidence
The loops that govern it
Regeneration is not a feature added to land; it is a loop changing direction. These are the ones the readings can see, which way each is running, and where a hand changes it.
Open ground and soil
bare or grazed ground → compaction → runoff → thinner soil
holding
75% open ground on a 0.5° average slope.
Keep the ground covered through the dry season; rested pasture and cover crops turn this loop around on gentle slopes.
The edge and the road
access → clearing at the edge → more edge → more access
holding
settlement 0.4 km.
Decide what the road is for before anything else: a gate, a planted edge and a written access rule are the cheapest interventions on this land.
Reading the place
This 709-hectare parcel near Nuquí, Pacífico Norte, Chocó is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access, scoring 34 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that about 58% of the parcel is permanently under water. Its main strength is that a watercourse runs through the parcel. The first move: map how water moves and stands across the parcel before siting anything on it.
Riskhigh confidence
About 58% of the parcel is permanently under water.
This area cannot be built on or farmed without major drainage or fill work, so it reduces the usable land and the cost of developing it.
58% permanent open water, plus 6% under seasonal water (JRC Global Surface Water, 1984–2021).
Opportunityhigh confidence
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.
A mapped river or stream crosses the parcel (Río Panguí).
Terrainhigh confidence
The land is flat.
Flat ground is easy to build on, farm, and mechanize, though low flat land can drain poorly and should be checked for waterlogging.
Mean elevation -2 m, mean slope 1°, 25 m of relief.
Biodiversityhigh confidence
The area has a rich record of documented wildlife.
High biodiversity adds conservation value, may bring species-protection rules, and can support eco-tourism or habitat-credit programs.
2,264 biodiversity records nearby, including Actitis macularius and Goniopsis pulchra (GBIF, the global species-record archive).
Soillow confidence
No satellite soil data is available for this parcel.
Soil quality cannot be assessed remotely here, so a ground survey is needed before any agricultural or restoration decision.
The SoilGrids survey returned no data for this location.
Confidence reflects the data behind each reading: high when clear passes or strong sources agree, medium on a partial or single-source signal, low where the data is sparse or indirect. A low-confidence reading usually needs one more clear pass, or a check on the ground.
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, community dynamics look rich, with a deep record of documented life nearby. 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 that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.
Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment
27Conservation priority
FrontierWorking-land buffer
Standalone conservation value, outside the mapped network.
standalone value, outside the mapped network
Two lenses, two numbers: the Land Score reads this land's own body; conservation priority reads its position in the network. When they disagree, the gap itself is the finding.
This reads as working land best held as a buffer, scoring 27 out of 100 for conservation priority. It carries standalone value outside the mapped network — worth holding on its own terms.
43/100
Hospitality fit
The funding layer: a small, low-footprint operation sited on the already-worked ground, sized to carry the restoration — never spending the habitat it depends on.
Conservationmedium confidence
This reads as working land — its role is to buffer the core, not to be the core.
Land like this holds the habitat's edge: kept in low-impact use, it shields the intact land beside it from encroachment and gives the living network room to breathe.
25% tree cover.
Hospitalitylow confidence
A modest hospitality layer is possible, but it is not the strongest card.
In the regenerative model the lodging is a means, not the end: a low-footprint operation sited on the already-worked ground earns the revenue that funds the restoration and stewardship, while the core is left to recover. Kept small, it also gives the corridor local guardians with a reason to hold it.
Hospitality fit 43/100, drawing on water on site. Site any building on the already-worked ground, not the habitat.
Capital moves
01
Tie up the land before restoring it — purchase or an easement that holds through a sale.
Before committing
Restoration is a multi-year investment; without secure tenure the connectivity it builds can be undone by the next owner.
Confirm on the ground · Trace the title and cadastral record, and check what conservation-finance the jurisdiction offers before committing.
02
Thicken cover along the parcel's edges and watercourses to widen what species can move through.
First year
As a stepping stone or buffer, the parcel's contribution is its edges and riparian strips — the parts that link to the habitat next door.
Confirm on the ground · With an ecologist, identify the connecting strips worth planting first; confirm which watercourses cross the land at the end of the dry season.
03
Set a wildlife baseline and re-read it — camera traps on the parcel's connecting edges.
Ongoing
Funders and partners judge conservation land by whether wildlife actually uses it; a repeatable baseline is what turns the thesis into evidence and steers the next round of capital.
Confirm on the ground · Run camera traps and species counts on a fixed schedule and track movement between the parcel and the habitat beside it.
The deployment reading is a screening lens layered on the Land Score — it points capital at the land where it builds the most connectivity, and each move is paired with the ground-truth step that confirms it.
How it compares
1stpercentile · Tropical · Neotropic
Ranked against 46 readings · same thermal belt
4th percentile against all 100 readings so far — the cohort rank above is the fairer one; this is the wider one.
Reads below most of the 46 readings logged in Tropical · Neotropic — stronger than 1%. Freedom from development pressure is its strongest signal here (42nd percentile), ecology its weakest (20th).
Percentile by reading · higher is better land
Ecology
20th
Low pressure
42nd
Percentiles compare this reading against the growing corpus of public TERRA readings in like land — not all land on Earth. They sharpen as the wall grows.
The physical frame
Climate, water, soil, and shape — what the land is made of and what moves across it.
Climate · to 2050
Source unavailable for this parcel.
Water
—mm/yr
Rainfall
—%
20-yr trend
On site
To watercourse
58%
Permanent water
6% seasonal
Río Panguí · Río Nuquí · Quebrada Cuguchito · Quebrada Mulatá
Soil · 0–30 cm
Source unavailable for this parcel.
Terrain & cover
-2m
Elevation
0.5°
Mean slope
25%
Forest
3%
Built
Water 64%Mangroves 13%Tree cover 12%Grassland 7%Built-up 3%
The living surface
What grows here, what is being lost, and what presses on it.
Low-lying at -2 m, this reads as a coastal or wetland edge — an inference from elevation and water signals, not a measured shoreline distance, so confirm how near the water actually is. If it holds, the play is the buffer: protect and restore it for blue carbon (the carbon coastal wetlands lock away), storm defence, and nursery habitat.
Low-lying coastal or wetland ground where mangrove, marsh, and dry forest meet the sea. Protect and restore the buffer — blue carbon, storm defence, nursery habitat.
-2 m elevation25% forest0.5° sloperiver on site
Also consider · Regenerative village (42) · Regenerative agroforestry estate (29)
A published, rules-based suggestion read from the parcel's own indicators — forest, water, slope, access, and its place in the network. It names the shape of project the land is already set up to carry; confirm it against tenure, soils, and what you know from the ground. These fit numbers rank whole project models against each other; the deployment lens's hospitality fit (43/100) is a different scale that asks only whether a small lodge could fund the stewardship here — the two need not match. Two theses share this ground: this lens reads its low wet edge — the buffer to restore; the deployment lens reads its standing patches — the stepping stones. One parcel holds both, so walk it to see which dominates, and let the first money follow that.
What to do
01
Map how water moves and stands across the parcel before siting anything on it.
First visit
A large share reads as standing or saturated ground, which sets what can be built, farmed, or drained, and where.
Confirm on the ground · Walk the low ground at the end of the wet season and after heavy rain; a hydrologist can confirm the drainage pattern.
02
Commission a ground soil survey before any agricultural or restoration decision.
Before committing
Satellites cannot read soil biology, structure, or below-ground carbon — the very things that decide what will grow — and no survey data is available here.
Confirm on the ground · Take samples across the parcel for a lab test of organic carbon, texture, and pH, and dig a pit to read the profile and rooting depth.
03
Start with a ground survey, then sequence the foundational work — water, then soil, then access.
First year
This is the longest game; the early foundational work is what makes everything downstream possible.
Confirm on the ground · Survey the parcel, then stage the work by permanence — water and structure first, plantings last.
Questions to sit with
Which of the wet ground is a problem to drain, and which is an asset to keep — and who downstream depends on how you answer that?
Are you here to hold this land as it is, to work it, or to help it change — and does the reading above serve that intention?
If the work succeeds, what do the water, the canopy, and the people around this land look like a generation from now — and what is the first condition that has to change for that to begin?
Where does this reading disagree with what you have seen walking the land? That disagreement is the first thing to check on the ground.
These are not data gaps — they are the questions the data cannot answer.
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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.
Unavailable for this parcel: the rain record, the soil survey — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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