Community suitability of La Rioja, Argentina
Currently not suitable confidence B · live score 30
78
best land · p90
88%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 51
Governance, safety & tenure 53
Economy & cost 1
Society, freedom & health 87
Land & water 71
Climate, growing & hazards 73
Autonomy & access 22
Where it pushes back
Monetary & capital sovereigntyAccessibilityFood & forage diversity
Within La Rioja — 18 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Capital
strongest Society, freedom & health (87) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 35
General Angel V. Penaloza
strongest Society, freedom & health (87) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 35
General Belgrano
strongest Society, freedom & health (87) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 34
General Ocampo
strongest Society, freedom & health (87) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 34
General San Martin
strongest Society, freedom & health (87) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 34
Castro Barros
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 33
Independencia
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 33
Sanagasta
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 33
Arauco
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 32
General Juan F. Quiroga
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 32
Chamical
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 32
Rosario Vera Penaloza
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 31
Chilecito
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 30
San Blas de los Sauces
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 30
Famatina
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 29
Coronel Felipe Varela
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 28
General Lamadrid
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 24
Vinchina
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Not suitable 20
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Legal entity & land frameworkcountry B OECD FDI RRI + manual
Education & schooling freedomcountry B HSLDA + UNESCO UIS
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Land tenure securitycountry A IPRI (de jure) + Prindex (de facto)
Business & economic viabilitycountry A World Bank B-READY, Heritage, Fraser
Cost of living, labour & landcountry A World Bank PPP, ILOSTAT
Monetary & capital sovereigntycountry A IMF/World Bank, Chinn-Ito
Personal freedomcountry A Cato/Fraser Human Freedom Index
Healthcare qualitycountry B WHO GHO
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening
These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.
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