Public reading
100 ha · -27.485, -55.120 · Argentina
The water reads better than the rest.
26th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 22 conservation priority
7 of 13 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: gbif, sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc…
The reading in full
This 100-hectare parcel near Oberá, Municipio de Oberá, Departamento Oberá is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. It scores 53 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
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 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 wetter climate here by 2050. The projected change is modest, so current conditions are a reasonable guide for planning. 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. 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.
What the land is telling us: Read across the record, the land reads as stable: the canopy history shows no meaningful loss in a generation and the water signal is holding, which means the work is to build on a sound base rather than to reverse a decline. 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. 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 a watercourse runs through the parcel.
The ground and its cover
The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.
The verdict
Oberá, Municipio de Oberá, Departamento Oberá
26th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 22 conservation priority
Four of five readings
Weakest: PressureNot 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
Subtropical · Neotropic · against 34 readings · 26th of all 100
Coverage
7 of 13 layers answered
Nearly complete — gaps reweighted, not guessed.
Silent: the species record, Sentinel-2, the radar +3.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 57
Best-fit model
Regenerative village
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 1,805 mm of rain falls here in a year. 15% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (2.4° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 168 mapped watercourses cross the land (Arroyo Toro, Arroyo Cariyo Viejo). A road runs against the boundary, and settlement sits within a kilometre, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +0.9 °C and +5% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Regenerating — almost no tree cover lost since 2000; rainfall up 17% 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
100 hectares at Oberá of gentle land around 333 m. The ground reads 15% under canopy, 84% built. Water shapes it — 1,805 mm of rain a year, 168 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Oberá, 0 km away.
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.
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)
Nominatim reverse geocode
Terrarium elevation tiles
Archive 2004–2024 + MPI-ESM1-2-XR to 2050
WorldCover 2021 v200
Global Surface Water v1.4 — occurrence & seasonality
Global Forest Change (tree cover 2000 + annual loss)
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 soil survey, the governance record, the thermal read — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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