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Shaded-relief view of the land around Municipio de Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico, the parcel boundary drawn in gold

633 ha inside the gold line

2 km

Shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Municipio de Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico

633 ha · 27.296, -112.892 · Mexico

28out of 100 · Land ScoreReclaim

Foundational work first. The potential follows.

4th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 27 conservation priority

Water: 33
Soil: 18
Ecology: 38
Climate: 10
Pressure: 40

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

The reading in full

This 633-hectare parcel near Municipio de Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access. It scores 28 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. 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 wider readings: The land is gently rolling. Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads. 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 low. Low-carbon soil is typically depleted or sandy; building fertility for productive use takes time, cover crops, and organic inputs. 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 change record here is thin — the canopy history did not fully resolve — so the trajectory is honestly unknown. The standing signals look sound, but calling the land stable would be an assertion, not a reading; treat its direction as a first field question. 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 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 that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.

The ground and its cover

Terrain · shaded relief — Municipio de Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico — Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles

Land cover · ESA WorldCover 2021 — Municipio de Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico — 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

28out of 100 · Land ScoreReclaim

Foundational work first. The potential follows.

Municipio de Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico

ReclaimCultivateRestoreAnchor

4th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 27 conservation priority

Five readings

Water33

Soil18

Ecology38

Climate10

Pressure40

Weakest: Climate

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

Standing

4thpercentile

Subtropical · Neotropic · against 34 readings · 3rd of all 100

Coverage

100%

weight read

8 of 8 layers answered

Every pillar read from live data.

Where the capital goes

27/ 100 priority

Frontierhospitality fit 61

Best-fit model

Regenerative village

57 / 100

Fit from published rules over the indicators.

The land in numbers

Area

633ha

Elevation

146m

113–184 m

Slope

2.0°

Buildable bench

not read

Forest cover

24%

Canopy height

not read

Rainfall

122mm/yr

+21% over 20 yr

Warming to 2050

+2.3°C

rain -74%

Soil carbon

5.9g/kg

pH 8.0

Nearest road

0.5km

Species records

16,403records

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 122 mm of rain falls here in a year. 24% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (2° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 2 mapped watercourses cross the land (Arroyo San Ignacio). A road runs against the boundary, and the nearest settlement is 1.2 km away, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +2.3 °C and -74% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.

Holding — rainfall up 21% 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

633 hectares at Municipio de Mulegé of rolling land around 146 m. The ground reads 24% under canopy, 5% built. Water shapes it — 122 mm of rain a year, 2 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is San Lino, 1.16 km away.

Its vocationinhabit carefully

A community sited on the working matrix. Larger, accessible, and buildable near existing settlement, this matrix land has room for a regenerative community that keeps the habitat edges intact and restores the rest.

146 m elevation24% forest2.0° slope122 mm rain/yrFrontier tier — outside the mapped network

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 · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page.

Independent instruments agree: water stands on this land.

observedA watercourse crosses the parcel itself.
observedAnd the rain record has risen 20.5% in twenty years.
derived2 separate signals point the same way — this is not one sensor's opinion.

What to doSite anything permanent off the wet ground, and walk the parcel in the rainy season before believing any dry-season visit.

Bears on where anything gets built · high confidence

More water is arriving — and arriving harder.

observedThe twenty-year rain record moved +20.5% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
derivedNote the disagreement: the observed archive moved +20.5%, while the 2050 model says -74%. Neither cancels the other — the archive is what happened, the model is one projection. Design for the envelope: drainage for the wet record, storage for the dry projection.

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 climate resilience is unusually weak.

derivedAgainst 34 readings of like land (Subtropical · Neotropic), this parcel's climate resilience ranks in the bottom 3%.
derivedAn unusual weakness is rarely bad luck — something specific happened or is happening here that its peers escaped.

What to doMake climate resilience 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

holding

24% tree cover on 122 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

76% open ground on a 2° average slope.

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 0.5 km, settlement 1.2 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 633-hectare parcel near Municipio de Mulegé, Baja California Sur, Mexico is land that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access, scoring 28 out of 100. The reading that most shapes the work here is that rainfall is low, making water availability a primary constraint. Its main strength is that a watercourse runs through the parcel. The first move: build a water budget sized to the projected dry spell, not the annual average.

Riskhigh confidence

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.

122 mm of rain per year — below the roughly 1,000 mm rain-fed agriculture usually needs.

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: +2.3 °C mean temperature, -74% 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 (Arroyo San Ignacio).

Terrainhigh confidence

The land is gently rolling.

Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads.

Mean elevation 146 m, mean slope 2°, 71 m of relief.

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.

16,403 biodiversity records nearby, including Melanerpes uropygialis and Zenaida asiatica (GBIF, the global species-record archive).

Soilmedium confidence

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.

5.9 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, sandy loam texture, pH 8 (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 0.49 km to the nearest road, 1.16 km to San Lino.

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 change record here is thin — the canopy history did not fully resolve — so the trajectory is honestly unknown. The standing signals look sound, but calling the land stable would be an assertion, not a reading; treat its direction as a first field question.

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 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 that asks for foundational work first — water, soil, access. Its clearest strength to build from is that a watercourse runs through the parcel.

Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment

27Conservation priority

FrontierWorking-land buffer

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 working land best held as a buffer, scoring 27 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 61/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.

61/100

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 working land — its role is to buffer the core, not to be the core.

Land like this holds the habitat's edge: kept in low-impact use, it shields the intact land beside it from encroachment and gives the living network room to breathe.

24% tree cover.

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 61/100, drawing on water on site. Site any building on the already-worked ground, not the habitat.

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
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

4thpercentile · Subtropical · Neotropic

Ranked against 34 readings · same thermal belt

3rd percentile against all 100 readings so far — the cohort rank above is the fairer one; this is the wider one.

Reads below most of the 34 readings logged in Subtropical · Neotropic — stronger than 4%. Freedom from development pressure is its strongest signal here (26th percentile), climate resilience its weakest (3rd).

Percentile by reading · higher is better land

Water

5th

Soil

4th

Ecology

22nd

Climate

3rd

Low pressure

26th

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

22.5°C

Mean temp

+2.3°C

2050 Δ temp

-74%

2050 Δ rain

Exposure · High

2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 2.3°C warmer than today's, with 74% less 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

122mm/yr

Rainfall

+20.5%

20-yr trend

On site

To watercourse

Permanent water

0% seasonal

Arroyo San Ignacio

Soil · 0–30 cm

5.9g/kg

Org. carbon

8.0

67%

Sand

12%

Clay

Sandy loam

Terrain & cover

146m

Elevation

2.0°

Mean slope

24%

Forest

Built

Shrubland 58%Tree cover 24%Bare / sparse 12%Built-up 5%Water 1%

The living surface

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

Ecology

16,403

Recorded wildlife observations

GBIF · the global species-record archive

Melanerpes uropygialis · Zenaida asiatica · Icterus cucullatus · Haemorhous mexicanus

Pressure

0.5km

To road

1.2km

To settlement

San Lino

Best-fit regenerative model

Regenerative village

57 / 100 fit

A community sited on the working matrix.

Larger, accessible, and buildable near existing settlement, this matrix land has room for a regenerative community that keeps the habitat edges intact and restores the rest.

Larger, accessible, buildable land near existing settlement — room for a regenerative community that leaves the habitat edges intact and restores the rest.

146 m elevation24% forest2.0° slope122 mm rain/yrriver on site

Also consider · Ecolodge / retreat (29) · Regenerative agroforestry estate (27)

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 (61/100) 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
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.
02
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.
03
Start with a ground survey, then sequence the foundational work — water, then soil, then access.
First year
This is the longest game; the early foundational work is what makes everything downstream possible.
Confirm on the ground · Survey the parcel, then stage the work by permanence — water and structure first, plantings last.

Questions to sit with

If the seasons here shift as the models expect, which of your intentions for the land still hold — and which need rethinking now?
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.

Generated Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:14:45 GMT · 3.3s · synthesized by TERRA.