Community suitability of Morona Santiago, Ecuador

Currently not suitable confidence B · live score 35
83
best land · p90
33%
good land
one block

How each domain holds up

Legal & sovereignty 45
Governance, safety & tenure 41
Economy & cost 98
Society, freedom & health 87
Land & water 49
Climate, growing & hazards 86
Autonomy & access 1

Where it pushes back

AccessibilityWater availability & qualityLand tenure security

Within Morona Santiago — 12 sub-regions

Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.

Gualaquiza
strongest Economy & cost (98) · weakest Autonomy & access (17)
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 56
Tiwintza
strongest Economy & cost (98) · weakest Autonomy & access (21)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Marginally suitable 53
Santiago
strongest Economy & cost (98) · weakest Autonomy & access (16)
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 52
Palora
strongest Economy & cost (98) · weakest Autonomy & access (14)
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 52
Limon Indanza
strongest Economy & cost (98) · weakest Autonomy & access (13)
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 51
Sucua
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Marginally suitable 51
Pablo Sexto
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 36
Morona
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 35
San Juan Bosco
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 35
Logrodo
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 33
excluded excl
excluded excl

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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