Community suitability of Merida, Venezuela
Currently not suitable confidence B · live score 27
89
best land · p90
99%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 25
Governance, safety & tenure 21
Economy & cost 1
Society, freedom & health 76
Land & water 78
Climate, growing & hazards 89
Autonomy & access 42
Where it pushes back
Monetary & capital sovereigntyLand tenure securityGovernance & corruption
Within Merida — 23 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Antonio Pinto Salinas
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (87) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 30
Campo Elias
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (93) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 30
Rivas Davila
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (97) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 30
Sucre
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (92) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 30
Zea
strongest Autonomy & access (85) ·
weakest Economy & cost (1)
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 30
Alberto Adriani
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 29
Miranda
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 29
Obispo Ramos De Lora
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 29
Pueblo Llano
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 29
Tovar
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 29
Guaraque
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 28
Julio Cesar Salas
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 28
Rangel
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 28
Andres Bello
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 27
Justo Briceno
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 27
Libertador
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 27
Cardenal Quintero
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 26
Tulio Febres Cordero
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 26
Arzobispo Chacon
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 25
Caracciolo Parra Olmedo
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 25
Aricagua
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 24
Santos Marquina
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 24
Padre Noguera
pushes back: Monetary & capital sovereignty
Currently not suitable 22
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
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
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
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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