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Shaded-relief view of the land around Municipio de Campo Ramón, Departamento Oberá, Misiones, the parcel boundary drawn in gold

10 ha inside the gold line

250 m

Shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Municipio de Campo Ramón, Departamento Oberá, Misiones

10 ha · -27.482, -54.908 · Argentina

68out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

The water is willing. Follow it.

71st percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 50 conservation priority

Water: 100
Soil: 43
Ecology: 54
Climate: 63
Pressure: 74

9 of 13 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc, worldbank_wgi…

The reading in full

This 10-hectare parcel near Municipio de Campo Ramón, Departamento Oberá, Misiones is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 68 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.

The risks that most shape a decision here: 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: Models project a warmer and wetter climate here by 2050. Expect a warmer and wetter future here; favour species and infrastructure that tolerate the projected range. Rainfall is moderate. Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability. Rainfall has also been rising, which can bring more intense wet seasons; plan drainage accordingly. The land is flat. Flat ground is easy to build on, farm, and mechanize, though low flat land can drain poorly and should be checked for waterlogging. Little wildlife has been formally recorded here. A low record count usually reflects limited survey effort rather than low biodiversity, so a ground survey is needed before drawing conclusions. Soil organic carbon is moderate. The soil is workable but will benefit from cover cropping and organic inputs to build fertility before intensive use. The parcel is relatively remote. Distance from roads and towns means lower encroachment pressure and more privacy, but higher transport and operating costs.

What the land is telling us: The longer record suggests a land that has been drawn down rather than held: about 10% of its tree cover has been cleared since 2000, most recently in 2019. 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 are barely recorded here — an absence of data, not necessarily of life. 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 — Municipio de Campo Ramón, Departamento Oberá, Misiones — Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 — Municipio de Campo Ramón, Departamento Oberá, Misiones — 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

68out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore

The water is willing. Follow it.

Municipio de Campo Ramón, Departamento Oberá, Misiones

ReclaimCultivateRestoreAnchor

71st percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 50 conservation priority

Five readings

Water100

Soil43

Ecology54

Climate63

Pressure74

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

71stpercentile

Subtropical · Neotropic · against 34 readings · 72nd of all 100

Coverage

100%

weight read

9 of 13 layers answered

Every pillar read from live data.

Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the governance record +1.

Where the capital goes

50/ 100 priority

Frontierhospitality fit 64

Best-fit model

Corridor anchor reserve

48 / 100

Fit from published rules over the indicators.

The land in numbers

Area

9.5ha

Elevation

140m

124–163 m

Slope

2.8°

Buildable bench

not read

Forest cover

98%

Canopy height

not read

Rainfall

1,781mm/yr

+13% over 20 yr

Warming to 2050

+1.2°C

rain +6%

Soil carbon

25.6g/kg

pH 5.4

Nearest road

2.4km

Species records

0records

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 1,781 mm of rain falls here in a year. 98% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (2.8° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 13 mapped watercourses cross the land (Arroyo Acaraguá, Arroyo Dorado). The nearest road is 2.4 km off, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.2 °C and +6% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.

Holding — 10.1% of the tree cover lost since 2000; rainfall up 13% 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

10 hectares at Municipio de Campo Ramón of gentle land around 140 m. The ground reads 98% under canopy. Water shapes it — 1,781 mm of rain a year, 13 traced watercourses.

Its vocationprotect

Protect the keystone; hold the connection open. With 98% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 50, the leverage here is protection: secure the core so the connection it anchors stays open.

140 m elevation98% forest2.8° slope1,781 mm rain/yrFrontier tier — outside the mapped network

Its trajectoryrecovering— cut 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.

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: recorded, from the historical archive · observed, measured from satellite or map data · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page.

This is a forest coming back, not one that never left.

recordedCut and coming back: 10.1% went after 2000 (last in 2019), and the cover now reads 98% — the land is regrowing, which means young forest, not old.

What to doProtect the regrowth's momentum: young forest gains value fastest when simply left connected and unburned.

Bears on the land's living value · high confidence

More water is arriving — and arriving harder.

observedThe twenty-year rain record moved +13.4% — 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

For its kind of land, its soil is unusually weak.

derivedAgainst 34 readings of like land (Subtropical · Neotropic), this parcel's soil ranks in the bottom 10%.
derivedAn unusual weakness is rarely bad luck — something specific happened or is happening here that its peers escaped.

What to doMake soil 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

running toward degradation

98% tree cover on 1,781 mm of rain; 10.1% of the tree cover lost since 2000, last in 2019.

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

The edge and the road

access → clearing at the edge → more edge → more access

holding

road 2.4 km; 10.1% tree cover lost since 2000.

Distance is doing the work here; keep it, and do not build the road that would end it.

Reading the place

This 10-hectare parcel near Municipio de Campo Ramón, Departamento Oberá, Misiones is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside, scoring 68 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that a meaningful share of this land's tree cover has been cleared since 2000. Its main strength is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover. The first move: ground-truth what the canopy actually is before assuming forest value.

Riskhigh confidence

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.

About 10.1% of the parcel lost tree cover since 2000, most recently in 2019. It held 84% tree cover in 2000. Source: Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11.

Opportunitylow confidence

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.

98% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping). Naturalness is not verified.

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 (Arroyo Acaraguá).

Climatemedium confidence

Models project a warmer and wetter climate here by 2050.

Expect a warmer and wetter future here; favour species and infrastructure that tolerate the projected range.

Projected change by 2050: +1.2 °C mean temperature, +6% rainfall. Exposure rated Moderate.

Waterhigh confidence

Rainfall is moderate.

Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability. Rainfall has also been rising, which can bring more intense wet seasons; plan drainage accordingly.

1,781 mm of rain per year. A watercourse crosses the parcel. Up about 13% over 20 years.

Terrainhigh confidence

The land is flat.

Flat ground is easy to build on, farm, and mechanize, though low flat land can drain poorly and should be checked for waterlogging.

Mean elevation 140 m, mean slope 3°, 39 m of relief.

Biodiversitylow confidence

Little wildlife has been formally recorded here.

A low record count usually reflects limited survey effort rather than low biodiversity, so a ground survey is needed before drawing conclusions.

Only 0 biodiversity records nearby (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.

25.6 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, clay texture, pH 5.4 (ISRIC SoilGrids).

Accesshigh confidence

The parcel is relatively remote.

Distance from roads and towns means lower encroachment pressure and more privacy, but higher transport and operating costs.

About 2.44 km to the nearest road.

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 longer record suggests a land that has been drawn down rather than held: about 10% of its tree cover has been cleared since 2000, most recently in 2019. 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 are barely recorded here — an absence of data, not necessarily of life. 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.

Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment

50Conservation priority

FrontierCore habitat

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 intact habitat to secure, scoring 50 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 64/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.

64/100

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 intact habitat — the priority is to secure it, not rebuild it.

Standing natural forest is far cheaper to protect than to restore, and holding it inside a corridor keeps the connection open. Securing tenure and legal protection is where capital does the most here.

98% tree cover, 10% cleared since 2000.

Hospitalitymedium confidence

A small hospitality operation could carry the conservation here.

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 64/100, drawing on standing forest, water on site. Site any building on the already-worked ground, not the habitat.

Capital moves

01
Secure this land first — through purchase, or a conservation easement that survives a change of owner.
Before committing
Intact corridor habitat holds its value only while it stays intact; locking in protection before the land turns over is the move capital cannot undo.
Confirm on the ground · Confirm title and boundaries, then scope the conservation-easement and payment-for-protection instruments available in this jurisdiction.
02
Protect the standing forest and remove the active threats to it.
First visit
The habitat is already here; the work is to keep it — stopping clearing, fire, and hunting pressure holds far more value than any planting would add.
Confirm on the ground · Walk the boundary for signs of encroachment, fire, and hunting; agree the protection terms with neighbours who share the edge.
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

71stpercentile · Subtropical · Neotropic

Ranked against 34 readings · same thermal belt

72nd percentile against all 100 readings so far — the cohort rank above is the fairer one; this is the wider one.

About typical for the 34 readings logged in Subtropical · Neotropic. Freedom from development pressure is its strongest signal here (78th percentile), soil its weakest (10th). Land reads weaker toward the west.

Percentile by reading · higher is better land

Water

73rd

Soil

10th

Ecology

49th

Climate

52nd

Low pressure

78th

Landscape · 1 reading within 21 km

·Land reads weaker toward the west

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

20.9°C

Mean temp

+1.2°C

2050 Δ temp

+6%

2050 Δ rain

Exposure · Moderate

2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 1.2°C warmer than today's, with 6% 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

1,781mm/yr

Rainfall

+13.4%

20-yr trend

On site

To watercourse

Arroyo Acaraguá · Arroyo Dorado · Arroyo del Medio · Arroyo Las Abejas

Soil · 0–30 cm

25.6g/kg

Org. carbon

5.4

24%

Sand

41%

Clay

Terrain & cover

140m

Elevation

2.8°

Mean slope

98%

Forest

Built

Tree cover 98%Grassland 2%

The living surface

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

Ecology

Recorded wildlife observations

GBIF · the global species-record archive

Pressure

2.4km

To road

—km

To settlement

Forest history · since 2000

84%

Tree cover 2000

10.1%

Cover lost

2019

Latest loss

Hansen Global Forest Change GFC-2023-v1.11

Best-fit regenerative model

Corridor anchor reserve

48 / 100 fit

Protect the keystone; hold the connection open.

With 98% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 50, the leverage here is protection: secure the core so the connection it anchors stays open.

High-value habitat inside the connectivity network. The move is to secure it — purchase or easement — so the corridor it anchors stays unbroken.

140 m elevation98% forest2.8° slope1,781 mm rain/yrriver on site

Also consider · Ecolodge / retreat (40) · Watershed protection (38)

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 (64/100) is a different scale that asks only whether a small lodge could fund the stewardship here — the two need not match.

What to do

01
Ground-truth what the canopy actually is before assuming forest value.
First visit
Satellite land-cover cannot separate natural forest from a monoculture plantation, and the difference decides the conservation and carbon value.
Confirm on the ground · Walk the stand: one species in rows is plantation; mixed ages and species with natural regeneration is forest. A botanist can confirm.
02
Carry out a field biodiversity survey to see what the records miss.
First year
A thin record here usually reflects little survey effort, not little life; what actually lives on the parcel shapes both its value and its constraints.
Confirm on the ground · Have an ecologist survey across seasons; local naturalists and birders often already know the site.
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

Standing under the canopy, is it one species or many — and which parts would you protect rather than replant?
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 · 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)

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)

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 governance record, the thermal read — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.

Generated Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:44:39 GMT · 12.1s · synthesized by TERRA.