Public reading
82 ha · 19.673, -98.802 · Mexico
The upside is here. Shape it deliberately.
7th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 17 conservation priority
15 of 26 sources answered, each named and dated ↓ · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: gbif, sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc…
Three things to know
The parcel sits near protected land.
Nearest protected area: Zona de Monumentos Arqueologicos de Teotihuacan.
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Rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint.
733 mm of rain per year — below the roughly 1,000 mm rain-fed agriculture usually needs.
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Jurisdiction is part of the parcel.
México · Estado de México · San Martín de las Pirámides.
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First move · first dry season
Build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.
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.
then: Confirm tenure and boundaries against the legal record before relying on this reading.
One measurement per instrument, each drawn to its own scale. Hover a mark for the reading behind it.
Rain · 21 years
Down 15.2% over twenty years. Open-Meteo.
The ground and its cover
ESA WorldCover. It cannot tell natural forest from plantation.
Elevation & slope
2,314–2,330 m across the parcel. AWS terrain tiles.
Climate to 2050
From today's 15.9 °C. Expect is the honest word: this is a projection.
Access
9 watercourses mapped. OpenStreetMap.
Where the parcel sits between securing it and hosting people on it, and the project that fits it best.
Best-fit model
Guard the headwaters; study what they hold.
Standalone conservation value, outside the mapped network.
Drawing the film…
The film
The place, the score, the five pillars and three findings, set over contour lines traced from this parcel’s own elevation. Every figure on screen is this reading’s; the last finding is the one it is least sure of. Nothing in it is generated.
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Go deeper
Everything the instruments read about this land, in its own words: the narrative, the maps, the evidence card by card, the 2050 window, what to do first, an analyst to ask, and all 26 sources, each named and dated.
The reading in full
This 82-hectare parcel near San Martín de las Pirámides, State of Mexico, 55850 is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. It scores 44 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: 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. Rainfall has been declining over the past two decades. Water planning should target the drier conditions ahead, not today's averages; storage and drought-tolerant choices matter more here. This landscape holds a World Heritage property (Zona de Monumentos Arqueologicos de Teotihuacan). A heritage-bearing landscape raises the likelihood that development here triggers archaeological assessment, and that finds during works must stop them. That is a planning fact, not a burden — and locations are deliberately not shown.
Where the upside lies: 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: Models project a warmer and drier climate here by 2050. Expect a warmer and drier future here; favour species and infrastructure that tolerate the projected range. This parcel is a position in a watershed, not an island. What arrives here is decided upstream, and what happens here is felt downstream — land use on this parcel is water stewardship for everyone below it. Read the upstream land uses before trusting the water, and count the downstream neighbours before changing it. The parcel sits at high elevation. Higher ground is cooler, which changes crop suitability and can ease heat stress, but may add access and frost considerations. The largest buildable bench is 82.2 ha. This is the piece that decides what fits: a single footprint, its access, and its services all have to land on contiguous ground. Everything beyond it is a second site, not an extension of the first. Soil organic carbon is low. Low-carbon soil is typically depleted or sandy; building fertility for productive use takes time, cover crops, and organic inputs. The parcel is relatively remote. Distance from roads and towns means lower encroachment pressure and more privacy, but higher transport and operating costs. Jurisdiction is part of the parcel. Permits, zoning, water, and roads run through these offices — knowing who governs the land is the first step of every plan that touches it.
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 is the binding constraint — rainfall is low, so what the land can carry is set by how water is stored and held. 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. Its clearest strength to build from is that the parcel sits near protected land.
The ground and its cover
The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.
The verdict
San Martín de las Pirámides, State of Mexico, 55850
7th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 17 conservation priority
Five readings
Weakest: Soil
All five read on one axis: higher is better. Pressure scores calm, so a high number means little human pressure on this land.
Standing
Neotropic · against 106 readings · 7th of all 124
Coverage
15 of 26 layers answered
Every pillar read from live data.
Silent: the species record, Sentinel-2, the radar +8.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 58
Best-fit model
Upper-watershed research station
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 733 mm of rain falls here in a year. 22% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (0.8° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 9 mapped watercourses cross the land (Río San Juan, Piedras Negras), and what leaves it travels 2 km downstream before the mapped path ends. The nearest road is 1.5 km off, the nearest settlement is 2.2 km away, and 36% of the parcel is cropped, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.2 °C and -5% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — the canopy has held while the rain record fell -15.2%.
Guard the headwaters; study what they hold. At 2,322 m with 22% 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. 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
82 hectares at San Martín de las Pirámides of gentle land around 2,322 m. The ground reads 22% under canopy, 36% worked as cropland. Water shapes it — 733 mm of rain a year, 9 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Oxtotipac, 2.19 km away.
Guard the headwaters; study what they hold. At 2,322 m with 22% 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.
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)
Recorded historic/heritage features within 10 km — generalized to counts, classes and distance bands; never coordinates
Named places and features of the surrounding landscape (titles + distances)
Nominatim reverse geocode
Terrarium elevation tiles
Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050
SoilGrids v2.0 (SOC, pH, sand, clay; 0–30 cm)
WorldCover 2021 v200
Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality
Global Forest Change (tree cover 2000 + annual loss)
Per-cell slope and aspect (Horn), buildable share, largest contiguous bench
Upstream basin + downstream flowpath (screening hydrography)
M ≥ 5 events within 100 km, past 50 years
Satellite Embedding v1, annual (64-dimensional per-pixel embedding) — baseline and latest year compared
Administrative hierarchy + structured facts of the governing unit
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 species record, Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach, osm adaptation, the governance record, the thermal read, the biomass map, the population grid, the hazard screen, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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