Community suitability of Cayenne, French Guiana
Currently not suitable confidence B · live score 23
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best land · p90
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good land
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How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 31
Climate, growing & hazards 78
Autonomy & access 1
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityWater availability & qualityGrowing conditions
Within Cayenne — 13 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Camopi
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (1)
pushes back: Accessibility
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Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
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
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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