16th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 45 conservation priority
Water
56
Soil
48
Ecology
58
Climate
22
Pressure
61
8 of 8 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm
The reading in full
This 668-hectare parcel near Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico is workable land whose plan must come before the capital. It scores 49 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: 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.
The wider readings: 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. Biodiversity records are moderate. There is a reasonable but incomplete picture of local wildlife; a ground survey would sharpen any conservation or regulatory assessment. 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 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. 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 most of the parcel reads as tree cover.
The ground and its cover
2 km
Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles
2 km
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
49out of 100 · Land ScoreCultivate
The upside is here. Shape it deliberately.
Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico
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16th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 45 conservation priority
Five readings
Water
56fair
Soil
48fair
Ecology
58fair
Climate
22watch
Pressure
61fair
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
16thpercentile
Tropical · Neotropic · against 46 readings · 16th of all 100
Coverage
100%
weight read
8 of 8 layers answered
Every pillar read from live data.
Where the capital goes
45/ 100 priority
Frontierhospitality fit 63
Best-fit model
Corridor anchor reserve
48 / 100
Fit from published rules over the indicators.
The land in numbers
Area
668ha
Elevation
52m
42–87 m
Slope
0.9°
Buildable bench
not read
Forest cover
84%
Canopy height
not read
Rainfall
730mm/yr
+40% over 20 yr
Warming to 2050
+1.5°C
rain -32%
Soil carbon
28.5g/kg
pH 7.3
Nearest road
1.9km
Species records
251records
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 730 mm of rain falls here in a year. 84% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (0.9° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. The nearest road is 1.9 km off, and the nearest settlement is 5.5 km away, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1.5 °C and -32% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — rainfall up 40% 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
668 hectares at Ticul of gentle land around 52 m. The ground reads 84% under canopy. Water shapes it — 730 mm of rain a year. The nearest settlement is Emiliano Zapata, 5.5 km away.
Its vocationprotect
Protect the keystone; hold the connection open. With 84% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 45, the leverage here is protection: secure the core so the connection it anchors stays open.
52 m elevation84% forest0.9° slope730 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 parcel from orbit
Finding the latest clear satellite pass…
The land, in context
Reading the land's record…
Relationships
A parcel is a node in living systems, not an island. Each line below is derived from this reading itself.
Each line is tagged with how it is known: observed, measured from satellite or map data · derived, reasoned from other readings on this page.
observed
This parcel lives beside Emiliano Zapata5.5 km away
derived
This parcel is read against Tropical · Neotropicp16 of 46 readings
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.
More water is arriving — and arriving harder.
observedThe twenty-year rain record moved +39.6% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
derivedNote the disagreement: the observed archive moved +39.6%, while the 2050 model says -32%. 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 water is unusually weak.
derivedAgainst 46 readings of like land (Tropical · Neotropic), this parcel's water ranks in the bottom 6%.
derivedAn unusual weakness is rarely bad luck — something specific happened or is happening here that its peers escaped.
What to doMake water 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
84% tree cover on 730 mm of rain.
Keep the canopy whole; the loop is running the right way on its own.
The edge and the road
access → clearing at the edge → more edge → more access
holding
road 1.9 km, settlement 5.5 km.
Distance is doing the work here; keep it, and do not build the road that would end it.
Reading the place
This 668-hectare parcel near Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico is workable land whose plan must come before the capital, scoring 49 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 most of the parcel reads as tree cover. 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.
730 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: +1.5 °C mean temperature, -32% rainfall. Exposure rated High.
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.
84% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping). Naturalness is not verified.
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 52 m, mean slope 1°, 45 m of relief.
Biodiversitymedium confidence
Biodiversity records are moderate.
There is a reasonable but incomplete picture of local wildlife; a ground survey would sharpen any conservation or regulatory assessment.
251 biodiversity records nearby, including Petrochelidon fulva and Eumomota superciliosa (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.
28.5 g/kg soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm, clay texture, pH 7.3 (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 1.88 km to the nearest road, 5.5 km to Emiliano Zapata.
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. 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 most of the parcel reads as tree cover.
Where the capital goes · corridor & deployment
45Conservation 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 45 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 63/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.
63/100
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.
84% 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 63/100, drawing on standing forest. 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
16thpercentile · Tropical · Neotropic
Ranked against 46 readings · same thermal belt
16th 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 46 readings logged in Tropical · Neotropic — stronger than 16%. Ecology is its strongest signal here (59th percentile), water its weakest (6th).
Percentile by reading · higher is better land
Water
6th
Soil
33rd
Ecology
59th
Climate
44th
Low pressure
29th
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
26.7°C
Mean temp
+1.5°C
2050 Δ temp
-32%
2050 Δ rain
Exposure · High
2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 1.5°C warmer than today's, with 32% 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
730mm/yr
Rainfall
+39.6%
20-yr trend
—km
To watercourse
Soil · 0–30 cm
28.5g/kg
Org. carbon
7.3
pH
28%
Sand
48%
Clay
Clay
Terrain & cover
52m
Elevation
0.9°
Mean slope
84%
Forest
0%
Built
Tree cover 84%Shrubland 8%Grassland 7%Cropland 1%
The living surface
What grows here, what is being lost, and what presses on it.
The rain row is one year alone — the Water panel's 730 mm is the long mean, and with the record up 40% in twenty years, recent years sit above it by design.
2050
Temperature shift
+1.5 °C
Rainfall shift
-32 %
Exposure
High — a hard projected shift — plan around it
Resilience reading
22 / 100
The resilience reading is the climate pillar from the five dials above — one number, shown here beside the horizon it scores.
The headline projection is one model family (CMIP6 · MPI-ESM1-2-XR via Open-Meteo). The 2045–2049 window stands in for 2050, and expect is the honest word. Intermediate horizons (2030 · 2040) and 2100 are not shown because the engine has not read them — TERRA does not interpolate between measurements.
Best-fit regenerative model
Corridor anchor reserve
48 / 100 fit
Protect the keystone; hold the connection open.
With 84% tree cover beside the network and a conservation priority of 45, 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.
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 (63/100) 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
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.
04
Confirm soil and water on the ground, then design to what the land can carry.
First visit
The land is workable, but the plan has to be built to its limits rather than around a hoped-for use.
Confirm on the ground · Ground-truth the key constraints before committing to a use, then size the plan to them.
Questions to sit with
Standing under the canopy, is it one species or many — and which parts would you protect rather than replant?
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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