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Shaded-relief view of the land around Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico, the parcel boundary drawn in gold

666 ha inside the gold line

2 km

Shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico

666 ha · 20.776, -105.527 · Mexico

60out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

Good bones. The rest is work.

58th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 25 conservation priority

Water: 87
Soil: 71
Ecology: 45
Climate: not read
Pressure: 37

8 of 8 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm

The reading in full

This 666-hectare parcel near Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 60 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.

The risks that most shape a decision here: About 31% 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. 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.

The wider readings: The land is gently rolling. Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads. 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. Soil organic carbon is moderate. The soil is workable but will benefit from cover cropping and organic inputs to build fertility before intensive use. 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: 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 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 land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside.

The ground and its cover

Terrain · shaded relief — Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico — Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 — Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico — 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

60out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

Good bones. The rest is work.

Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico

ReclaimCultivateRestoreAnchor

58th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 25 conservation priority

Four of five readings

Water87

Soil71

Ecology45

Climate—

Pressure37

Weakest: PressureNot read: 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

58thpercentile

Tropical · Neotropic · against 46 readings · 50th of all 100

Coverage

80%

weight read

8 of 8 layers answered

Nearly complete — gaps reweighted, not guessed.

Where the capital goes

25/ 100 priority

Frontierhospitality fit 52

Best-fit model

Coastal buffer · blue–green

57 / 100

Fit from published rules over the indicators.

The land in numbers

Area

666ha

Elevation

20m

-1–99 m

Slope

2.3°

Buildable bench

not read

Forest cover

37%

Canopy height

not read

Rainfall

963mm/yr

+56% over 20 yr

Warming to 2050

not read

Soil carbon

39.2g/kg

pH 6.5

Nearest road

0.7km

Species records

21,121records

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

About 963 mm of rain falls here in a year. 37% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (2.3° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 4 mapped watercourses cross the land. The nearest road is 0.7 km off, and the nearest settlement is 1 km away, which is the pressure the edge lives with.

Holding — rainfall up 56% 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

666 hectares at Bahía de Banderas of rolling land around 20 m. The ground reads 37% under canopy, 9% built. Water shapes it — 963 mm of rain a year, 4 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Corral del Risco, 1 km away.

Its vocationbuffer

Protect the blue–green edge. Low-lying at 20 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.

20 m elevation37% forest2.3° slope963 mm rain/yrFrontier 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 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: observed, measured from satellite or map data · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page.

More water is arriving — and arriving harder.

observedThe twenty-year rain record moved +55.9% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.

What to doKeep or restore cover on the slopes and size drainage for pulses, not averages; verify culverts and crossings in the wet season.

Bears on this land and the people downstream · medium confidence

Strong land, standing on its own.

derivedThe Land Score reads 60 against a conservation priority of 25.
derivedIts value is intrinsic rather than positional — the network does not depend on it, which frees what it can be.

What to doPlans here answer to the land itself, not to a network obligation.

Bears on what a plan owes the landscape · medium confidence

For its kind of land, its calm (low pressure) is unusually weak.

derivedAgainst 46 readings of like land (Tropical · Neotropic), this parcel's calm (low pressure) ranks in the bottom 8%.
derivedAn unusual weakness is rarely bad luck — something specific happened or is happening here that its peers escaped.

What to doMake calm (low pressure) the first diligence question on the ground: find the cause before pricing the land.

Bears on what this land is, relative to its kind · medium 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.

Forest and water

canopy → cloud and rain held → streams and soil moisture → canopy

holding

37% tree cover on 963 mm of rain.

Plant along the watercourses and the ridge: canopy there returns the most water to the rest.

Open ground and soil

bare or grazed ground → compaction → runoff → thinner soil

holding

63% open ground on a 2.3° 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

road 0.7 km, settlement 1 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 666-hectare parcel near Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside, scoring 60 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that about 31% of the parcel is permanently under water. The first move: map how water moves and stands across the parcel before siting anything on it.

Riskhigh confidence

About 31% 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.

31% permanent open water, plus 3% under seasonal water (JRC Global Surface Water, 1984–2021).

Riskhigh confidence

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.

963 mm of rain per year — below the roughly 1,000 mm rain-fed agriculture usually needs.

Terrainhigh confidence

The land is gently rolling.

Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads.

Mean elevation 20 m, mean slope 2°, 100 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.

21,121 biodiversity records nearby, including Pelecanus occidentalis and Fregata magnificens (GBIF, the global species-record archive).

Soilmedium confidence

Soil organic carbon is moderate.

The soil is workable but will benefit from cover cropping and organic inputs to build fertility before intensive use.

39.2 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, sandy clay loam texture, pH 6.5 (ISRIC SoilGrids).

Accesshigh confidence

Road and town access are close.

Good access lowers development and logistics costs but can raise encroachment pressure and land prices.

About 0.65 km to the nearest road, 1 km to Corral del Risco.

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, 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 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 land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside.

Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment

25Conservation priority

FrontierStepping stone

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 a partial patch that extends the network's reach, scoring 25 out of 100 for conservation priority. It carries standalone value outside the mapped network — worth holding on its own terms. A small, low-footprint operation (fit 52/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.

52/100

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 a partial patch — enhancing it extends the network's reach.

A partly-forested parcel works as a stepping stone between the standing habitat around it: thickening its cover and connecting it to the neighbours widens the habitat that species can actually move through. No declared corridor is mapped here — the network in question is the nearby forest itself.

37% 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 52/100, drawing on the setting. 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
Site a small, low-footprint hospitality operation on the already-worked ground to fund the stewardship.
Once the land is secured
A modest operation on the already-worked ground earns the revenue that pays for the restoration and the guardians, without spending the habitat it depends on.
Confirm on the ground · Model the operation at a size the land can carry, keep it off the habitat, and confirm the zoning and any sustainable-tourism certification locally.
04
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

58thpercentile · Tropical · Neotropic

Ranked against 46 readings · same thermal belt

50th percentile against all 100 readings so far — the cohort rank above is the fairer one; this is the wider one.

About typical for the 46 readings logged in Tropical · Neotropic. Soil is its strongest signal here (90th percentile), development pressure its weakest (8th).

Percentile by reading · higher is better land

Water

32nd

Soil

90th

Ecology

27th

Low pressure

8th

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

Annual rainfall, 2004–2024 · mm

25.2°C

Mean temp

—°C

2050 Δ temp

—%

2050 Δ rain

Water

963mm/yr

Rainfall

+55.9%

20-yr trend

2.1km

To watercourse

31%

Permanent water

3% seasonal

Soil · 0–30 cm

39.2g/kg

Org. carbon

6.5

57%

Sand

23%

Clay

Sandy clay loam

Terrain & cover

20m

Elevation

2.3°

Mean slope

37%

Forest

Built

Tree cover 37%Water 34%Grassland 19%Built-up 9%Bare / sparse 1%

The living surface

What grows here, what is being lost, and what presses on it.

Ecology

21,121

Recorded wildlife observations

GBIF · the global species-record archive

Pelecanus occidentalis · Fregata magnificens · Quiscalus mexicanus · Tyrannus melancholicus

Pressure

0.7km

To road

1.0km

To settlement

Corral del Risco

Best-fit regenerative model

Coastal buffer · blue–green

57 / 100 fit

Protect the blue–green edge.

Low-lying at 20 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.

20 m elevation37% forest2.3° slope963 mm rain/yr

Also consider · Regenerative village (54) · Regenerative agroforestry estate (27)

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 (52/100) 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
Build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.
First dry season
Water, not the yearly total, is the limiting factor here; storage and drought-tolerant choices decide what the land can carry.
Confirm on the ground · Measure the springs, wells, and watercourses at the end of the dry season, when supply is at its lowest — that is the number to plan against.
03
Walk the land to scope the regenerative work before committing capital.
First visit
The foundations are present and the upside is real, but sequencing the work well is what realises it.
Confirm on the ground · Read the water, soil, and cover on the ground, then plan the work from the most permanent layer down.

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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Sources & method · 8 layers→

Place — OpenStreetMap / Nominatim

Nominatim reverse geocode

settlement · live

ODbL 1.0

Terrain — AWS Terrarium (Mapzen)

Terrarium elevation tiles

~10 m (z12) · 2017

Open (attribution)

Climate — Open-Meteo

Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050

~9 km · 2004–2024 / 2045–2049

CC-BY 4.0 (data); non-commercial API tier

Soil — ISRIC SoilGrids v2

SoilGrids v2.0 (SOC, pH, sand, clay; 0–30 cm)

250 m · 2020

CC-BY 4.0

Land cover — ESA WorldCover

WorldCover 2021 v200

10 m · 2021

CC-BY 4.0 (commercial promotion: notify due@esa.int)

Water, roads & protected areas — OpenStreetMap

Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)

vector · live

ODbL 1.0

Biodiversity — GBIF

Occurrence records (count + top species)

point · live

Mixed CC0 / CC-BY / CC-BY-NC (per dataset)

Surface water — JRC Global Surface Water

Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality

30 m · 1984–2021

Copernicus / open (attribution)

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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