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Shaded-relief view of the land around Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, 51200, the parcel boundary drawn in gold

673 ha inside the gold line

2 km

Shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, 51200

673 ha · 19.193, -100.130 · Mexico

61out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

Worth restoring — and worth the patience.

53rd percentile for like land · Buffer tier · 54 conservation priority

Water: 92
Soil: 48
Ecology: 65
Climate: 49
Pressure: 42

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

The reading in full

This 673-hectare parcel near Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, 51200 is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 61 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.

The risks that most shape a decision here: About 23% 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. The rainfall archive shows an unusually steep drying signal — verify before relying on it. A swing this large more often reflects a data artifact or measurement change than real climate; water planning should wait on local records rather than build on this number. The terrain is steep, which constrains construction and raises erosion risk. Steep slopes increase building and road costs, limit machinery access, and make the land more prone to erosion and landslides. 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: 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: Rainfall is moderate. Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability. 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 land reads as holding rather than actively regenerating: the standing cover is intact, but the water or vegetation signal is under strain, so the trajectory turns on how the coming dry years are managed. 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 land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.

The ground and its cover

Terrain · shaded relief — Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, 51200 — Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 — Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, 51200 — 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

61out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

Worth restoring — and worth the patience.

Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, 51200

ReclaimCultivateRestoreAnchor

53rd percentile for like land · Buffer tier · 54 conservation priority

Five readings

Water92

Soil48

Ecology65

Climate49

Pressure42

Weakest: Pressure

All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land.

Standing

53rdpercentile

Neotropic · against 93 readings · 54th of all 100

Coverage

100%

weight read

8 of 8 layers answered

Every pillar read from live data.

Where the capital goes

54/ 100 priority

Bufferhospitality unsuited

Best-fit model

Upper-watershed research station

56 / 100

Fit from published rules over the indicators.

The land in numbers

Area

673ha

Elevation

1,847m

1,783–2,151 m

Slope

5.5°

Buildable bench

not read

Forest cover

42%

Canopy height

not read

Rainfall

1,559mm/yr

-46% over 20 yr

Warming to 2050

+1.8°C

rain +15%

Soil carbon

24.3g/kg

pH 6.0

Nearest road

0.0km

Species records

4,478records

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 1,559 mm of rain falls here in a year. 42% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground slopes 5.5° on average, enough to move water without tearing soil where roots hold it. 101 mapped watercourses cross the land (Río Amanalco, Molinos - Los Hoyos). 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 +1.8 °C and +15% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.

Holding — rainfall down 46% 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

673 hectares at Valle de Bravo of strongly rising land around 1,847 m. The ground reads 42% under canopy, 29% built. Water shapes it — 1,559 mm of rain a year, 101 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Valle de Bravo, 0.22 km away.

Its vocationresearch

Guard the headwaters; study what they hold. At 1,847 m with 42% tree cover, this reads as intact montane headwater forest — high-value habitat whose biodiversity and water function justify guarding it and studying what it holds.

1,847 m elevation42% forest29% built5.5° slopeBuffer tier — steward the edge

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 · estimated, from a model, not a measurement · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page.

The water here is thinning.

observedThe twenty-year rain record moved -45.9% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
estimatedwater security, storage, and drought-tolerant planting become the design constraints here.
derivedNote the disagreement: the observed archive moved -45.9%, while the 2050 model says +15%. Neither cancels the other — the archive is what happened, the model is one projection. Design for the envelope: storage for the dry record, drainage for the wet projection.

What to doPrice water storage into any plan and verify the dry-season sources on the ground.

Bears on any plan that needs water · medium confidence

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

derivedAgainst 93 readings of like land (Neotropic), this parcel's calm (low pressure) ranks in the bottom 17%.
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

Height is this land's climate insurance.

observedAt 1,847 m, today's mean sits at 17.1°C.
estimatedThe +1.8°C projected by 2050 arrives on that cool baseline.
derivedAs the lowlands warm, land that stays temperate does double work: livable for people, refuge for species moving uphill.

What to doTreat elevation as an appreciating part of the asset — and design for the species arriving from below, not only the ones here now.

Bears on the decades ahead · 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

42% tree cover on 1,559 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

58% open ground on a 5.5° average slope, 2% cropped.

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 km, settlement 0.2 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 673-hectare parcel near Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, 51200 is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside, scoring 61 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that about 23% 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 23% 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.

23% permanent open water, plus 2% under seasonal water (JRC Global Surface Water, 1984–2021).

Risklow confidence

The rainfall archive shows an unusually steep drying signal — verify before relying on it.

A swing this large more often reflects a data artifact or measurement change than real climate; water planning should wait on local records rather than build on this number.

The archive's linear trend reads about 46% lower over 20 years (2004–2024) — outside the range the engine treats as dependable.

Riskhigh confidence

The terrain is steep, which constrains construction and raises erosion risk.

Steep slopes increase building and road costs, limit machinery access, and make the land more prone to erosion and landslides.

Mean slope 6°, with 368 m of elevation change across the parcel.

Riskmedium confidence

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.

Projected change by 2050: +1.8 °C mean temperature, +15% rainfall. Exposure rated High.

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 Amanalco).

Opportunityhigh confidence

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.

Nearest protected area: Parque Estatal Monte Alto.

Waterhigh confidence

Rainfall is moderate.

Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability.

1,559 mm of rain per year. A watercourse crosses the parcel.

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.

4,478 biodiversity records nearby, including Quiscalus mexicanus and Fulica americana (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.

24.3 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, clay loam texture, pH 6 (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 0.04 km to the nearest road, 0.22 km to Valle de Bravo.

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 land reads as holding rather than actively regenerating: the standing cover is intact, but the water or vegetation signal is under strain, so the trajectory turns on how the coming dry years are managed.

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 land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.

Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment

54Conservation priority

BufferStepping stone

Working land to steward as a corridor buffer.

working land to steward as a corridor buffer

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 54 out of 100 for conservation priority. Its role is to buffer the core — steward it so the habitat beside it holds. Fund the conservation directly here — the land's job is protection, not lodging.

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.

42% tree cover.

Hospitalitymedium confidence

A funding operation is not the move here — the land's job is protection.

This parcel reads as legally protected or reserved for cover, so lodging is constrained and beside the point. Fund the conservation directly; do not look to build here.

Strict-protection signal (SINAC protected area, capability class VIII, or a protected overlap).

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

53rdpercentile · Neotropic

Ranked against 93 readings · same region

54th percentile against all 100 readings so far — the cohort rank above is the fairer one; this is the wider one.

About typical for the 93 readings logged in Neotropic. Ecology is its strongest signal here (74th percentile), development pressure its weakest (17th).

Percentile by reading · higher is better land

Water

40th

Soil

20th

Ecology

74th

Climate

45th

Low pressure

17th

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

17.1°C

Mean temp

+1.8°C

2050 Δ temp

+15%

2050 Δ rain

Exposure · High

2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 1.8°C warmer than today's, with 15% more rain. Expect is the honest verb: this is the middle of a range of futures, not a certainty — so design to the range, not to today.

Water

1,559mm/yr

Rainfall

-45.9%

20-yr trend

On site

To watercourse

23%

Permanent water

2% seasonal

Río Amanalco · Molinos - Los Hoyos · Arroyo Chiquito · La Hierbabuena

Soil · 0–30 cm

24.3g/kg

Org. carbon

6.0

43%

Sand

27%

Clay

Clay loam

Terrain & cover

1,847m

Elevation

5.5°

Mean slope

42%

Forest

29%

Built

Tree cover 42%Built-up 29%Water 22%Shrubland 3%Grassland 2%

The living surface

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

Ecology

4,478

Recorded wildlife observations

GBIF · the global species-record archive

Quiscalus mexicanus · Fulica americana · Ardea alba · Anas diazi

Protected nearby · Parque Estatal Monte Alto

Pressure

0.0km

To road

0.2km

To settlement

Valle de Bravo

Best-fit regenerative model

Upper-watershed research station

56 / 100 fit

Guard the headwaters; study what they hold.

At 1,847 m with 42% tree cover, this reads as intact montane headwater forest — high-value habitat whose biodiversity and water function justify guarding it and studying what it holds.

Intact montane forest at the top of a watershed, rich enough to justify a small research-and-education presence that funds protection of the water tower below.

1,847 m elevation42% forest29% built5.5° slope1,559 mm rain/yr

Also consider · Regenerative village (46) · Watershed protection (39)

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.

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
Design roads and structures to the contour, and get a geotechnical and erosion assessment before any earthworks.
Before committing
Steep ground raises building and access costs and erosion risk; the terrain sets the layout, not the other way round.
Confirm on the ground · Have a geotechnical engineer assess slope stability and cut-and-fill on the ground before a road line is committed.
04
Design to the 2050 climate projections rather than today's conditions.
First year
The land is strongly exposed to projected change, so species, water storage, and infrastructure should be chosen for the conditions ahead.
Confirm on the ground · Cross-check the projections against the memory of long-time residents on how the seasons have already shifted here.
05
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

At the end of the dry season, where does water still hold on this land — and what would keep it there a month longer?
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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