Puerto Varas
Puerto Varas Provinsi Pelabuhan Varas Puerto Varas Province | |
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Province | |
 Flag | |
| Nickname(s): The Big Island Province | |
| Country | Slokais Islands |
| Establishment | 01 January 1894 |
| Capital | Ciudad Esnevada |
| Official languages | English, Slokasian, Spanish, Begtwis, Timori |
| Ethnic groups |
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| Demonym(s) | Puerto Varanians |
| Government | |
• Governor | Derek Datu-Silva (Conservative) |
• Speaker of the Puerto Varanian Assembly | Jean Maria-Silva |
| Puerto Varanian Senate | |
| Puerto Varanian Assembly | |
| National representation | |
| 23/643 | |
| Population | |
• 2025 census | 2,037,040 (13th) |
| Postal | PV |
Puerto Varas is a province of Slokais Islands, home to 2,037,040 people, with a capital at Ciudad Esnevada, home to 660,789 people. Known for its vast jungle interior and volcanic activity, Puerto Varas has a large rubber and forestry industry. Additionally, Puerto Varas is a popular tourist destination and home to Palmerai Space Base, the home of the SISA's operations into outer-space. Culturally, the island is influenced by Indigenous culture and Catholic tradition, with the island having the highest number of languages being spoken of any province, with 40 languages.
History[edit | edit source]
Puerto Varas, specifically Jacko-Nah Island, which is the indigenous name for the main island of the province, was settled around 30,000 by a group related to the isolated groups in nearby Kayoah-Kah. These hunter-gatherer groups dominated the islands for thousands of years before later groups from the Hesperidan mainland assimilated between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago. Today, the only remaining groups with lineage are the Kamu-Wari-Wari, who live in small communities in the Central Highlands National Park. Organized settlements and kingdoms began to be formed around the year 700 BCE, with a general lack of centralized order, besides the cultivation of rice. Records from a 340 CE expedition along the northern coast described "self-contained people living simple lives". In 440, the Tediyan Kingdom occupied the region and installed local rulers to help export sandalwood in the interior regions. This arrangement continued for centuries, with the Begtwi's being favored over the Timori people.
In 985, the Timori prophets declared that "a great storm" would arrive, and doubting them, the Begtwi's arrested the prophets. Yet soon after Mt Cande-dai erupted in a massive eruption for the first time in many centuries, it would cause months of darkness across the island and was even reported by those fighting in the Great War of Faith in Pindai. Crops died, unrest began, and the entire island fell into war. Begtwi would abandon its control over the southern portion of the island as the Tediyan Kingdom would soon re-take control.