82 ha · 5.793, -73.231 · Colombia
Good bones. The rest is work.
76th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 21 conservation priority
16 of 27 sources answered, each named and dated ↓ · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: osm_overpass, sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc…
Three things to know
Rainfall is moderate.
1,132 mm of rain per year.
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The terrain is steep, which constrains construction and raises erosion risk.
Mean slope 11°, with 291 m of elevation change across the parcel.
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Little wildlife has been formally recorded here.
Only 0 biodiversity records nearby (GBIF, the global species-record archive).
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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.
One measurement per instrument, each drawn to its own scale. Hover a mark for the reading behind it.
Rain · 21 years
Up 76.6% over twenty years. Open-Meteo.
The ground and its cover
ESA WorldCover. It cannot tell natural forest from plantation.
Elevation & slope
2,738–3,029 m across the parcel. AWS terrain tiles.
Climate to 2050
From today's 11.9 °C. Expect is the honest word: this is a projection.
Species records
Log scale. A count this size also measures survey effort, not only life. GBIF.
Access
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.
vertical · drawn in your browser from this reading
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 27 sources, each named and dated.
The reading in full
This 82-hectare parcel near Sotaquirá, Centro, Boyacá is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 69 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
The risks that most shape a decision here: The terrain is steep, which constrains construction and raises erosion risk. Steep slopes increase building and road costs, limit machinery access, and make the land more prone to erosion and landslides. 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. This ground has a recorded seismic history. Repeated strong earthquakes within reach shape how anything here should be built — seismic design codes, slope stability under shaking, and insurance all follow from it.
Where the upside lies: The soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration. Carbon-rich soil holds water and nutrients well, supports higher yields and faster regrowth, and may qualify for soil-carbon programs.
The wider readings: Rainfall is moderate. Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability. 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 largest buildable bench is 4.08 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. 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. The human fabric around this land is measured, not assumed. Labour, emergencies, schooling, and electricity all run on these distances — they decide what daily life and operations here actually cost. 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: 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 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 the soil is rich in organic carbon, a strong base for farming and restoration.
The ground and its cover
The verdict, the five pillar readings, how much of the land was read, and the headline figures.
The verdict
Sotaquirá, Centro, Boyacá
76th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 21 conservation priority
Five readings
Weakest: Ecology
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 101 readings · 76th of all 115
Coverage
16 of 27 layers answered
Every pillar read from live data.
Silent: the river and road trace, Sentinel-2, the radar +8.
Where the capital goes
Frontierhospitality fit 51
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 1,132 mm of rain falls here in a year. 44% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground slopes 10.8° on average, enough to move water without tearing soil where roots hold it. By 2050 the models expect +1.6 °C and -20% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — the canopy record shows no meaningful loss in a generation.
Guard the headwaters; study what they hold. At 2,836 m with 44% 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 Sotaquirá of strongly rising land around 2,836 m. The ground reads 44% under canopy. Water shapes it — 1,132 mm of rain a year. 1,916 people within 5 km, governed from Sotaquirá.
Guard the headwaters; study what they hold. At 2,836 m with 44% 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.
Occurrence records (count + top species)
Named places and features of the surrounding landscape (titles + distances)
DETER-Amazônia change polygons
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)
Gridded population 2020 (parcel + 5 km ring sums)
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 river and road trace, Sentinel-2, the radar, the infrastructure reach, osm adaptation, the heritage record, the governance record, the thermal read, the biomass map, the hazard screen, modis fire history — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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