Community suitability of Holguin, Cuba
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 65
86
best land · p90
97%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 32
Governance, safety & tenure 49
Society, freedom & health 87
Land & water 88
Climate, growing & hazards 76
Autonomy & access 88
Where it pushes back
Legal entity & land frameworkLand tenure securityGrowing conditions
Within Holguin — 14 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Baguanos
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (32)
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 68
Cacocum
strongest Autonomy & access (97) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (32)
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 67
Urbano Noris
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (32)
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 67
Calixto Garcia
strongest Autonomy & access (93) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (32)
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 66
Cueto
strongest Autonomy & access (91) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (32)
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 66
Jibara
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 66
Banes
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 65
Rafael Freyre
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 65
Sagua De Tanamo
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 64
Antilla
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 63
Mayari
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 63
Frank Pais
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 62
Holguin
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Marginally suitable 60
Moa
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Marginally suitable 59
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
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.
Other regions in Cuba
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