Public reading

Shaded-relief view of the land around Bejuco, Nandayure, Guanacaste, the parcel boundary drawn in gold1,943 ha inside the gold line
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Shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Bejuco, Nandayure, Guanacaste

1,943 ha · 9.842, -85.240 · Costa Rica

58out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

The water is willing. Follow it.

48th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 61 conservation priority

Water
100
Soil
not read
Ecology
70
Climate
10
Pressure
55

9 of 14 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc, soilgrids…

The reading in full

This 1,943-hectare parcel near Bejuco, Nandayure, Guanacaste is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 58 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.

The risks that most shape a decision here: Dry spells are projected to run about 88 days by 2050. A long rain-free stretch — not the yearly total — is what empties soil moisture and storage; size water storage and choose drought-tolerant planting to the dry spell, not the annual average. 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. A meaningful share of this land's tree cover has been cleared since 2000. Long-term loss points to historical or ongoing clearing pressure and a lower conservation baseline; confirm the legal status and whether clearing is still active.

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 wider readings: Rainfall is high and supports rain-fed use. There is enough water for most crops and forestry with little or no irrigation; dry-season storage still helps. 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. Official Costa Rican record places this in Lepanto, Puntarenas, Puntarenas. National cadastral and administrative data ground the parcel in the legal record — the basis for title, permitting, and tax diligence.

What the land is telling us: The longer record suggests a land that has been drawn down rather than held: about 55% of its tree cover has been cleared since 2000, most recently in 2021. The cover is measurably coming back now — a land recovering, which is a workable base, but the history is the reason the foundational work comes first. 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 most of the parcel reads as tree cover.

The ground and its cover

Terrain · shaded relief — Bejuco, Nandayure, Guanacaste
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Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles
Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 — Bejuco, Nandayure, Guanacaste
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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

58out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

The water is willing. Follow it.

Bejuco, Nandayure, Guanacaste

48th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 61 conservation priority

Four of five readings

Water100strong
Soilnot read
Ecology70strong
Climate10watch
Pressure55fair

Weakest: ClimateNot 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

48thpercentile

Tropical humid · Neotropic · against 26 readings · 43rd of all 100

Coverage

9 of 14 layers answered

Nearly complete — gaps reweighted, not guessed.

Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the soil survey +2.

Where the capital goes

61/ 100 priority

Frontierhospitality fit 74

Best-fit model

Ecolodge / retreat

56 / 100

Fit from published rules over the indicators.

The land in numbers

Area
1,943ha
Elevation
52m
18–231 m
Slope
1.9°
Buildable bench
not read
Forest cover
86%
Canopy height
not read
Rainfall
2,973mm/yr
+43% over 20 yr
Warming to 2050
+1.0°C
rain +45%
Soil carbon
not read
Nearest road
0.3km
Species records
5,579records
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 2,973 mm of rain falls here in a year. 86% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (1.9° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 56 mapped watercourses cross the land (Río Blanco, Río Juan de León). A road runs against the boundary, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1 °C and +45% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.

Holding54.6% of the tree cover lost since 2000; rainfall up 43% over twenty years.

To help: stop the clearing at the streams first: every metre of canopy kept along water holds the loop together.

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

1,943 hectares at Bejuco of strongly rising land around 52 m. The ground reads 86% under canopy. Water shapes it — 2,973 mm of rain a year, 56 traced watercourses.

Its vocationinhabit carefully

Fund conservation through low-footprint hospitality. Accessible and scenic beside standing habitat, with a hospitality fit of 74/100, this land can carry a small, low-footprint operation whose revenue funds the conservation.

52 m elevation86% forest1.9° slope2,973 mm rain/yrFrontier tier — outside the mapped network
Its trajectoryrecoveringcut after 2000, the cover is returning.

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.

Sources & method · 9 layers
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)
Costa Rica territorial record — SNIT

Administrative units, cadastral parcels, agrological land-capability, protected areas, Holdridge life zones (WFS)

vector (1:5 000 base) · national SDI (rolling)
SNIT Condiciones Generales de Uso (attribution)
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
Land cover — ESA WorldCover

WorldCover 2021 v200

10 m · 2021
CC-BY 4.0 (commercial promotion: notify due@esa.int)
Surface water — JRC Global Surface Water

Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality

30 m · 1984–2021
Copernicus / open (attribution)
Forest loss — Hansen Global Forest Change

Global Forest Change (tree cover 2000 + annual loss)

~30 m · 2000–2023
CC-BY 4.0

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.

Generated Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:51:36 GMT · 12.1s · synthesized by TERRA.