Badlands (region)

This article is about the region where much of the Gravel War takes place. For the game maps of the same name see: Badlands.

Badlands

Region

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A map of Badlands

Country: United States State: New Mexico

Badlands is a fictional geographic region, nominally placed in New Mexico, where several game maps and the city of Teufort are located, and where some elements of the Storyline occur.

Geology

Badlands feature canyons, ravines, gullies, and hoodoos

Badland normally refers to an area where thick deposits of soft rock or soil have been deeply eroded. Such areas are generally an impediment to transportation and unsuitable for agriculture. Often Badlands are in arid or desert climates.

This Badlands region features such geology. Badlands often have impressively colorful shales; but in this region red sandstones are predominate, favoring formation of steeper bluffs, hoodoos, and balanced rocks. Such features aside, Badlands is large region that encompasses other terrains, including red granite tors (Badwater Basin), mountains ranges (Thunder Mountain), and broad, flat farmland (2Fort).

Environment

Much of the region is arid and largely devoid of vegetation. However, there is a broad fertile valley from Well to Teufort. This valley is bounded in places by forested mountain ranges; the Thunder Mountains to the Northwest are high enough to achieve an Alpine environment.

Settlements

• Teufort, Pop. 1280

Industry

Agriculture

While much of Badlands is soil-less, there are areas of significant agricultural production, notably in the northeast around Teufort. Major red wheat and blue corn crops are handled through the large modern facilities at Granary.

Gravel

Extensive gravel deposits are extracted at Gravel Pit.

Mining

There is considerable mining of coal, gold, and other minerals. Operations include those located at Badwater Basin and Dustbowl.

Points of interest

Alamo, relocated to the Badlands Region by Blutarch and Redmond Mann

• Alamo[1]
• Eye Museum[2]

Sports

• Badland Brawlers, a sports team.

See also

• Teufort (City)
• Storyline

Notes

• The existence and geography of the region are revealed by the Map of Badlands in the Engineer Update pages.