Community suitability of Sinaloa, Mexico
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 67
84
best land · p90
94%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 52
Governance, safety & tenure 39
Economy & cost 86
Society, freedom & health 100
Land & water 84
Climate, growing & hazards 71
Autonomy & access 64
Where it pushes back
Land tenure securityGovernance & corruptionLegal entity & land framework
Within Sinaloa — 21 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Concordia
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (39)
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 71
Angostura
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (39)
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 70
El Rosario
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (39)
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 70
Elota
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (39)
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 70
Escuinapa
strongest Society, freedom & health (100) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (39)
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 70
Mocorito
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 70
Guasave
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 69
Ahome
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 68
Cosala
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 68
Culiacan
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 67
Mazatlan
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 67
Salvador Alvarado
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 67
El Fuerte
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 66
Badiraguato
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 65
Sinaloa
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 65
San Ignacio
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 64
Isla Saliaca
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 63
Isla Altamira
pushes back: Land tenure security
Moderately suitable 62
Isla
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Marginally suitable 60
Choix
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 58
Isla San Ignacio
pushes back: Land tenure security
Marginally suitable 57
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
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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