Public reading18,833 ha · 9.73 N 84.42 W

Mercedes Sur, Puriscal

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Shaded-relief view of the land around Mercedes Sur, Puriscal, San Jose Province, the parcel boundary drawn in gold18,833 ha inside the gold line
5 km
Shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles
68out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

Worth restoring, and worth the patience.

66th percentile for like land · Buffer tier · 70 conservation priority

10 of 14 sources answered, each named and dated ↓ · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc, worldbank_wgi…

The land's rhythm

From the LabUnverified

Every month since 2017, in one block

This land's record is being read: every clear look at it since January 2017, month by month. It takes about fifteen minutes and appears here by itself.

Read from orbit and written by machine, not yet checked on the land. What it shows is a lead to walk, not a finding: a clearing or a drought here is worth confirming before anyone relies on it.

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The land at a glance

WATER99ECOLOGY71CLIMATE53PRESSURE54SOIL5168
floor fair, 40shortfall below the floorring the ground's cover

Three things to know

  • Strength

    A watercourse runs through the parcel.

    A mapped river or stream crosses the parcel (Río Parrita).

    clear sky

  • Risk

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

    Mean slope 7°, with 1,516 m of elevation change across the parcel.

    clear sky

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  • Unknown

    Most of the parcel reads as tree cover.

    84% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping).

    in fog

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First move · before committing

Design roads and structures to the contour, and get a geotechnical and erosion assessment before any earthworks.

Have a geotechnical engineer assess slope stability and cut-and-fill on the ground before a road line is committed.

then: Design to the 2050 climate projections rather than today's conditions.

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Every view, at a glance

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What next

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The canopy, the soil and the water are read from orbit. TERRA Ground measures them on the land and keeps the reading current.

The record of this land

Read once, 13 Jul 2026. Each new reading of this land is kept here, so it shows how the land moves.

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