84th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 45 conservation priority
Water
100
Soil
not read
Ecology
56
Climate
74
Pressure
69
7 of 8 sources answered · higher is better on every pillar; pressure reads calm · silent: soilgrids
The reading in full
This 137-hectare parcel near Turbaco, Dique, Bolívar is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside. It scores 72 out of 100 on the Dear Wise Earth Land Score.
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 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 drier 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 gently rolling. Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads. 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: 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 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
1 km
Terrain · shaded relief · AWS Terrain Tiles
1 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
72out of 100 · Land ScoreRestore
The water is willing. Follow it.
Turbaco, Dique, Bolívar
ReclaimCultivateRestoreAnchor
84th percentile for like land · Frontier tier · 45 conservation priority
Four of five readings
Water
100strong
Soil—not read
Ecology
56fair
Climate
74strong
Pressure
69strong
Weakest: EcologyNot 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
84thpercentile
Tropical · Neotropic · against 46 readings · 80th of all 100
Coverage
80%
weight read
7 of 8 layers answered
Nearly complete — gaps reweighted, not guessed.
Silent: the soil survey.
Where the capital goes
45/ 100 priority
Frontierhospitality fit 65
Best-fit model
Corridor anchor reserve
48 / 100
Fit from published rules over the indicators.
The land in numbers
Area
137ha
Elevation
172m
130–201 m
Slope
3.4°
Buildable bench
not read
Forest cover
80%
Canopy height
not read
Rainfall
1,689mm/yr
+24% over 20 yr
Warming to 2050
+1.0°C
rain -3%
Soil carbon
not read
Nearest road
4.3km
Species records
2records
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 1,689 mm of rain falls here in a year. 80% of the parcel is under tree cover, and the ground is nearly flat (3.4° on average), so water lingers rather than runs. 17 mapped watercourses cross the land (Arroyo grande Turbaco, Arroyo las Palmas). The nearest road is 4.3 km off, and the nearest settlement is 5.1 km away, which is the pressure the edge lives with. By 2050 the models expect +1 °C and -3% rain, so every flow above runs a little differently than it does today.
Holding — rainfall up 24% 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
137 hectares at Turbaco of rolling land around 172 m. The ground reads 80% under canopy. Water shapes it — 1,689 mm of rain a year, 17 traced watercourses. The nearest settlement is Turbaco, 5.13 km away.
Its vocationprotect
Protect the keystone; hold the connection open. With 80% 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.
172 m elevation80% forest3.4° slope1,689 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 is within reach of Arroyo grande Turbaconearest mapped water 2.54 km
observed
This parcel is within reach of Arroyo las Palmas
derived
This parcel shares its landscape with Reserva Natural de la Sociedad Civil Praga
observed
This parcel lives beside Turbaco5.13 km away
derived
This parcel is read against Tropical · Neotropicp84 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 +23.8% — this is a place whose water is changing, not holding.
derivedNote the disagreement: the observed archive moved +23.8%, while the 2050 model says -3%. 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
Strong land, standing on its own.
derivedThe Land Score reads 72 against a conservation priority of 45.
derivedIts value is intrinsic rather than positional — the network does not depend on it, which frees what it can be.
What to doPlans here answer to the land itself, not to a network obligation.
Bears on what a plan owes the landscape · medium confidence
For its kind of land, its climate resilience stands out.
derivedAgainst 46 readings of like land (Tropical · Neotropic), this parcel's climate resilience ranks in the top 1%.
derivedAn unusual strength is the thing to protect first — it is what its peers do not have.
What to doWhatever plan is made, it should be one that cannot spend this climate resilience down.
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
80% tree cover on 1,689 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 4.3 km, settlement 5.1 km.
Distance is doing the work here; keep it, and do not build the road that would end it.
Reading the place
This 137-hectare parcel near Turbaco, Dique, Bolívar is land with sound foundations and clear regenerative upside, scoring 72 out of 100. Its main strength is that most of the parcel reads as tree cover. The first move: ground-truth what the canopy actually is before assuming forest value.
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.
80% of the parcel reads as tree cover (satellite land-cover mapping). Naturalness is not verified.
Opportunityhigh confidence
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.
Nearest protected area: Reserva Natural de la Sociedad Civil Praga.
Climatemedium confidence
Models project a warmer and drier climate here by 2050.
The projected change is modest, so current conditions are a reasonable guide for planning.
Projected change by 2050: +1 °C mean temperature, -3% rainfall. Exposure rated Low.
Waterhigh confidence
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.
1,689 mm of rain per year. Nearest mapped watercourse is about 2.54 km away. Up about 24% over 20 years.
Terrainhigh confidence
The land is gently rolling.
Gentle terrain is generally workable with only minor grading for buildings or roads.
Mean elevation 172 m, mean slope 3°, 71 m of relief.
Biodiversitylow confidence
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.
Only 2 biodiversity records nearby (GBIF, the global species-record archive).
Soillow confidence
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 SoilGrids survey returned no data for this location.
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 4.28 km to the nearest road, 5.13 km to Turbaco.
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 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.
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 65/100) could fund the work from the already-worked ground.
65/100
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.
80% 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 65/100, drawing on standing forest, protected land alongside. 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
84thpercentile · Tropical · Neotropic
Ranked against 46 readings · same thermal belt
80th percentile against all 100 readings so far — the cohort rank above is the fairer one; this is the wider one.
Stronger land than 84% of the 46 readings logged in Tropical · Neotropic. Climate resilience is its strongest signal here (99th percentile), development pressure its weakest (48th).
Percentile by reading · higher is better land
Water
78th
Ecology
53rd
Climate
99th
Low pressure
48th
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
26.4°C
Mean temp
+1.0°C
2050 Δ temp
-3%
2050 Δ rain
Exposure · Low
2050 sits within a single planning horizon — about 24 years out. The models expect seasons here about 1.0°C warmer than today's, with 3% 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
1,689mm/yr
Rainfall
+23.8%
20-yr trend
2.5km
To watercourse
Arroyo grande Turbaco · Arroyo las Palmas · Arroyo Aguas Vivas · Arroyo Montana
Soil · 0–30 cm
Source unavailable for this parcel.
Terrain & cover
172m
Elevation
3.4°
Mean slope
80%
Forest
0%
Built
Tree cover 80%Grassland 19%Shrubland 1%
The living surface
What grows here, what is being lost, and what presses on it.
Ecology
2
Recorded wildlife observations
GBIF · the global species-record archive
Eclipta prostrata · Tityus tayrona
Protected nearby · Reserva Natural de la Sociedad Civil Praga
Pressure
4.3km
To road
5.1km
To settlement
Turbaco
Future · the horizons the engine has read
Now
Mean temperature
26.4 °C
Rain, latest year (2024)
2,014 mm
Mean elevation
172 m
The rain row is one year alone — the Water panel's 1,689 mm is the long mean, and with the record up 24% in twenty years, recent years sit above it by design.
2050
Temperature shift
+1.0 °C
Rainfall shift
-3 %
Exposure
Low — modest projected shift for this parcel
Resilience reading
74 / 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 80% 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.
172 m elevation80% forest3.4° slope1,689 mm rain/yr
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 (65/100) 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
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.
02
Commission a ground soil survey before any agricultural or restoration decision.
Before committing
Satellites cannot read soil biology, structure, or below-ground carbon — the very things that decide what will grow — and no survey data is available here.
Confirm on the ground · Take samples across the parcel for a lab test of organic carbon, texture, and pH, and dig a pit to read the profile and rooting depth.
03
Carry out a field biodiversity survey to see what the records miss.
First year
A thin record here usually reflects little survey effort, not little life; what actually lives on the parcel shapes both its value and its constraints.
Confirm on the ground · Have an ecologist survey across seasons; local naturalists and birders often already know the site.
04
Walk the land to scope the regenerative work before committing capital.
First visit
The foundations are present and the upside is real, but sequencing the work well is what realises it.
Confirm on the ground · Read the water, soil, and cover on the ground, then plan the work from the most permanent layer down.
Questions to sit with
Standing under the canopy, is it one species or many — and which parts would you protect rather than replant?
This parcel sits beside protected land — what could it contribute to that larger habitat that it cannot contribute alone?
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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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.
Unavailable for this parcel: the soil survey — the affected pillars were reweighted, not guessed.
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