Grand Campo North
This area is the most populous region in the world, supported by careful management of natural resources and traditional practices that focus on survival over extraction and conquest.
Geography
This region is a thickly overgrown jungle zone in a basin between two mountain ranges. The west, south and east are book-ended by medium height mountains - the West Basin mountain range to the west, and the Asduh Mountains to the east.
Between are several large river systems that have cut their way down to the seas.
Ecosystem
The area usually recieves 110 to 121 inches of rain a year, which rapidly drains out through several large rivers. The trees form the backbone of the ecology of the region, 90% of the organisms have some relationship to the trees as food, shelter, breeding grounds, or depend on their life cycle in some way.
The jungle is thick with trees, underbrush and multiple canopies. light and shade are important as is what level of the jungle the organisms live at.
Ecosystem Cycles
The jungle is in a temperate range, but because of the concentration of warm moist air the portions of the jungle from the coast to about 900 miles inland are hot and usually warm all year round. Further south seasons can change and there can be an incredible amount of snow in the mountains that melts in the spring along with the rains flood all of the rivers down stream.
Localized Phenomena
Tornadoes can be a problem in the spring and summer seasons. This region is very flat, and powerful storms are common, these tornadoes go unseen except by the dwellers of the deep jungle who can find areas ripped down as the storms pass through. These areas become meadows for a few decades allowing a diversity of different life forms until the jungle begins to again encroach.
Fires in southern hills can be sparked in the summer when the area begins to dry out. Usually caused by lightning and many of the trees and animals rely on yearly fires to germinate seeds or clear dead trees.
Natural Resources
The entire jungle is one massive resource for the Soki, but everything from lumber to medicine comes from the forest. The Soki have mastered forest agriculture and are well feed on a variety of plants and animals farmed in harmony with the jungle. The hills in have much of the material mineral wealth the soki use for making tools, armaments, and structures.
Rivers are wide and deep and many allow ocean going vessels to go hundreds of miles up river, and support an astonishing number and variety of fish, including giant catfish, carp, giant pikes, and gars. Fishing supplies the primary proteins followed by insects and farmed rodents. Large ships can carry stone, metals, and lumber harvested to ports around the world. Just because a city is 300 miles inland doesn't mean it won't have ocean going merchant and warships available.
History
The northern coast has been inhabited by Soki for thousands of years, only in the last thousand years or so have colonists and cities grown in the southern basin or set up colonies outside of the basin.
Ecologically this area has gone largely unchanged as the Soki have not overly developed the jungle in an extractive way. There are untold millions that live in the jungle.
Maps
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Tinena
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City of Acamaxotl
Alternative Name(s)
Soki Basin
Type
Subcontinent
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