Public reading
100 ha · 18.474, -69.896 · Dominican Republic
Workable land — the plan must come before the capital.
4th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 8 conservation priority
8 of 13 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc, soilgrids…
The reading in full
This 100-hectare parcel near Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, 03201 is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. It scores 41 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: 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.
The wider readings: Rainfall is moderate. Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability. 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. Road and town access are close. Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices.
What the land is telling us: Read across the record, the land reads as stable: the canopy history shows no meaningful loss in a generation and the water signal is holding, which means the work is to build on a sound base rather than to reverse a decline. Of the land's core processes, the water cycle reads as adequate to abundant, so the question is less supply than how well the land captures and holds what falls and 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 workable land whose plan must come before the capital.
The ground and its cover
The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.
The verdict
Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, 03201
4th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 8 conservation priority
Four of five readings
Weakest: PressureNot read: Soil
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
Tropical · Neotropic · against 46 readings · 5th of all 100
Coverage
8 of 13 layers answered
Nearly complete — gaps reweighted, not guessed.
Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the soil survey +2.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 42
Best-fit model
Coastal buffer · blue–green
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 1,100 mm of rain falls here in a year. 3% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (1.4° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 33 mapped watercourses cross the land (Río Ozama, Río Isabela). A road runs against the boundary, and settlement sits within a kilometre, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.1 °C and +20% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Regenerating — almost no tree cover lost since 2000; rainfall up 34% over twenty years.
To help: plant along the watercourses and the ridge: canopy there returns the most water to the rest.
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
100 hectares at Santo Domingo of gentle land around 37 m. The ground reads 3% under canopy, 96% built. Water shapes it — 1,100 mm of rain a year, 33 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Santo Domingo, 0.49 km away.
Protect the blue–green edge. Low-lying at 37 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.
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.
Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)
Occurrence records (count + top species)
Nominatim reverse geocode
Terrarium elevation tiles
Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050
WorldCover 2021 v200
Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality
Global Forest Change (tree cover 2000 + annual loss)
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: Sentinel-2, the radar, the soil survey, the governance record, the thermal read — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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