La Quebrada Viva — Buyer Walkthrough

The Land

A fold of the Eastern Cordillera that hasn't been logged.

Sixty-two hectares of mature Atlantic-Forest interior in the Paraguarí department, two hours west of Asunción. The land drops 142 meters from ridge to quebrada — which is why you can build a cabin with a view and a stream at the bottom of the property, not a thousand meters away.

Satellite view of the LQV parcel — 768m × 768m at zoom 15 (Esri World Imagery)

3D exploration

Drop yourself onto the parcel.

The viewer below uses the same 30m-resolution terrain data that professional surveyors rely on. Fly to the waterfall, orbit the ridge, or measure the slope of a potential cabin site.

Drop in at the GPS-confirmed waterfall
Toggle between Esri satellite and OpenStreetMap
Measure distances and elevations in real-time
Click any tree or rock for details

Explore the parcel in 3D

Cesium World Terrain · Esri satellite · 30m SRTM-class elevation

📍 Centroid 25°36'S, 57°02'W 🗺️ 600m × 600m view

The Water

A year-round quebrada runs through the middle.

Paraguay's eastern hills carry the rain down to the Río Paraguay through a network of small quebradas. This property sits on one — the quebrada runs east-to-west through the southern half, with a GPS-confirmed waterfall dropping from a 274m rim on the north side.

1,776mm

Annual rainfall

Year-round — no dry season strong enough to stop the quebrada.

58%

Of parcel in valley

Where the quebrada corridor + tributary seepage sits.

274m

Waterfall rim

GPS-confirmed. Falls drop is between 5–50m (measure on site).

50+

Cascade candidates

DEM-derived. Top 5 by drop height have 25–28m elevation loss.

Wetland clusters

Atlantic-Forest seepage areas — rare, biodiversity-rich.

0.7%

Forest loss 2001–24

Virtually untouched for a generation.

"The quebrada is sub-pixel at every satellite resolution. It's 5–15m wide. It would not show up on any map you buy. It's there because Wes walked it." — A note on why GPS beats satellite for narrow features

The Forest

90% canopy, with specimen trees up to 24m tall.

This is mature Atlantic-Forest interior — not regrowth, not plantation. Mean canopy height is 3.5m, with emergent specimens reaching 24.5m (think lapacho, cedro, guatambú). Sentinel-2 satellite observations show the canopy stays green through the 2022 La Niña drought — proof the forest is drought-resilient, not just rain-fed.

Four-tier canopy, classified from satellite

Sentinel-2 NDVI binned into sparse, open, medium, and dense — covering 61 sub-polygons at 10m native resolution. Most of the parcel sits in the medium and dense bins.

10m resolution 61 polygons 2026 data

The same view in true color

A visible-light Sentinel-2 composite. This is what the parcel looks like from space on a clear day in May 2025 — Atlantic-Forest greens with no signs of recent clearing or pasture.

Sentinel-2 May 2025 RGB composite

NDWI confirms: zero open water in the polygon

The Normalized Difference Water Index shows the quebrada is too narrow to be detected from 10m satellite imagery. That's actually a feature, not a bug — it means the water table feeds the quebrada through subsurface flow, leaving the surface usable.

10m 12 scenes 2020-25 All NDWI negative

Why this matters for buyers: The dense canopy is what makes the quebrada permanent. It's also the single biggest reason the parcel hasn't been logged — a logger would have to fell and process a thousand mature trees to clear an acre, and there's no road in. That barrier is permanent.

The Build

Three cob houses already designed. Cycles-rendered in three lights.

We've commissioned architectural renderings of the first cob-bottle house on the property in three HDRI lighting conditions. The renders use the actual topography and atmospheric data of the parcel, not stock imagery.

HDRI A · Clear noon

Direct upper-left sun, clear sky. Best for showing massing, shadow, and the relationship between house and forest edge.

Cycles21MB2026

HDRI B · Golden hour haze

Low warm sun with morning mist from the quebrada. This is the view most buyers will remember — a cob wall with sunlight coming through the lapachos.

Cycles20MB2026

HDRI C · Dawn fog

Cool morning fog rolling in from the quebrada. This is what a guest would see walking to breakfast in winter — the property's signature atmosphere.

Cycles20MB2026

Why three lights: The same house in the same place looks completely different across the day. Most "stock" property renderings show only one lighting condition, which misrepresents the experience. The renders are byte-frozen at 85e86aa — meaning what you see here is exactly what was generated.

The Layers

Twelve real-time data layers, all toggleable.

Below is the same viewer the project's technical team uses to plan cabin placement. The data behind every layer is downloadable — click any link to get the GeoJSON.

Real-time data layers

MapLibre · 12 layers · drag to pan · scroll to zoom

📊 12 layers 📍 71.7 ha polygon 🗺️ 30m native

Sparse NDVI

Open NDVI

Medium NDVI

Dense NDVI

Stream / quebrada

Open water

Road

GBIF observation

Honest limits

What this data cannot tell you.

Pre-sales data is good for a first look, not for a final design. Here's what needs a real person on the property.

Individual tree positions

The canopy is shown in four density zones from satellite NDVI. Crown-level positions need Wes's phone captures processed through the COLMAP + gsplat pipeline. That work is in progress.

Cadastral (SNC) records

Padrones and Anexo I from Wesley's escritura need to be overlaid on the property map to verify the legal boundary. The escritura itself (62 ha) is slightly different from the GPS-walked polygon (71.7 ha) — a surveyor should reconcile.

Fire history

The NASA FIRMS API requires a free key to overlay the last 5 years of fire detections. The env-setup script prompts for it. Without it, fire risk is based on vegetation dryness only.

Drone / Maxar high-res

30 cm/pixel imagery from Vantor tasking runs >$2,800 per 100 km² — over-budget for a pre-sales page. Available as a post-deal add-on for serious buyers.

Stream connectivity

The DEM-derived quebrada segments are real but disconnected — D8 flow-accumulation produces a tree of tributaries rather than a single continuous main channel. A hydrogeologist can verify connectivity on site.

Buildings inside the polygon

Only 2 OSM-mapped buildings sit inside the property. The other 14 structures within 500m are scattered rural farms and sheds. A property survey will identify any unrecorded improvements.

Next step

Come see it.

A pre-sales page can only take you so far. The 30.9 ha buildable cluster is a 2-hour drive from Asunción, and a flight from Buenos Aires or São Paulo. We're happy to host a site visit — typically a half-day that includes the waterfall, the quebrada, and a conversation about what's possible.

Email Ivan (owner) See the full 62-71 ha Digital Analysis Read the canonical repo