Public reading
100 ha · 5.785, -73.259 · Colombia
Worth restoring — and worth the patience.
67th percentile for like land · Buffer tier · 52 conservation priority
9 of 14 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: sentinel2_ndvi, sentinel1_rtc, soilgrids…
The reading in full
This 100-hectare parcel near Sotaquirá, Centro, Boyacá is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 66 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.
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 lies close to the parcel. Nearby surface water improves access to irrigation and supply and adds habitat value, though rights and distance still affect how usable it is. 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: Rainfall is moderate. Water is adequate for many uses, but storage through the dry season improves reliability. 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. 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. 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: 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 most of the parcel reads as tree cover.
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
67th percentile for like land · Buffer tier · 52 conservation priority
Four of five readings
Weakest: ClimateNot 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
Neotropic · against 93 readings · 67th of all 100
Coverage
9 of 14 layers answered
Nearly complete — gaps reweighted, not guessed.
Silent: Sentinel-2, the radar, the soil survey +2.
Where the capital goes
Bufferhospitality unsuited
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 1,272 mm of rain falls here in a year. 73% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground slopes 14.3° on average, enough to move water without tearing soil where roots hold it. 20 mapped watercourses cross the land. The nearest road is 2.4 km off, and the nearest settlement is 2.5 km away, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.5 °C and -29% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Regenerating — almost no tree cover lost since 2000; rainfall up 107% over twenty years.
To help: keep the canopy whole; the loop is running the right way on its own.
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 Sotaquirá of strongly rising land around 2,981 m. The ground reads 73% under canopy. Water shapes it — 1,272 mm of rain a year, 20 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Sotaquirá, 2.54 km away.
Guard the headwaters; study what they hold. At 2,981 m with 73% 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.
Overpass (waterways, highways, places, protected areas)
Occurrence records (count + top species)
DETER-Amazônia change polygons
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: Sentinel-2, the radar, the soil survey, the governance record, the thermal read — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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