Susla
Sur Isla de San Antonio Սփր Իսլա դե Սան Անտոնիո | |
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 Flag  Coat of arms | |
| Etymology: Southern Island of Saint Antonio | |
| Motto: Սփր դել Մփնդո / Sur del Mundo (South of the World) | |
 Location of Susla (red) within Creeperopolis | |
| Country |  Creeperopolis |
| Department |  San Juan |
| Human settlement | c. 4500–3500 BC |
| Creeperian annexation | 28 December 1430 |
| Current status | 25 December 1949 |
| Capital and largest city | Punto Sur 54°00′S 67°00′W |
| Official languages | Creeperian Spanish |
| Ethnic groups | 100% Creeperian |
| Religion | Creeperian Catholicism |
| Demonym(s) | Susleño |
| Government | Viceroyalty |
• Viceroy | Mauricio Llano Valera |
| Area | |
• Total | 935 sq mi (2,420 km2) |
| Highest elevation | 3,921 ft (1,195 m) |
| Population | |
• 2020 census | 4,282 |
• Density | 4.58/sq mi (1.8/km2) |
| Time zone | AMT–5 (CAS) |
| Website | www.susla.gob.cr |
Sur Isla de San Antonio (Creeperian script: Սփր Իսլա դե Սան Անտոնիո; Creeperian Spanish pronunciation: [suɾ ˈis.la de san anˈto.ɲo]), commonly known by its nickname Susla (Սփսլա; [ˈsus.la]), is an island and viceroyalty of Creeperopolis. It is located between the department of Nuevo Amanecer to the west, the department of San Juan to the north, the country of Rakeo to the east, and the Asequi Strait to the south.
The island was first inhabited by the native Suslans sometime between 4500 and 3500 BC, arriving either from the Surian mainland or from Rakeo. The Creeperans landed on the island in 1430, claiming it for Creeperopolis, and conquered it entirely in 1434, killing almost all of the native Suslans in the process on the orders of Armando Rivera Obregón, the island's first viceroy. The island was invaded in 1460 by Armando Figueroa Rosales as the final battle of the Juañero Civil War fought between rival factions of the ruling class of the Captaincy General of San Juan. Following the fall of the captaincy general to the Empire of Sequoyah in 1518, the island became a refuge for Creeperans fleeing the former captaincy general's territory before returning to Creeperopolis. Susla briefly came under Senvarian control in 1519 before returning to Creeperian control in 1527. The island was used by the Creeperian Navy as an anti-piracy port from 1527 to 1770.
The municipality of Susla consists of 83 islands and islets. El Punto, the highest point on Susla which reaches an elevation of 3,921 feet (1,195 m), is a part of the Puntos Altos mountain range which spans the middle of the island. Several lakes and rivers are located on Susla, predominantly on the north side of the island.
Punto Sur, located on the Susla's southern shore, is the viceroyalty's largest and capital city. Four other municipalities are also located on the southern shore and another located on the northern shore. Mauricio Llano Valera has served as the viceroy of Susla since 2017. As of 2020, Susla has a population of 4,282, a plurality of whom are military personnel stationed at the Armando Rivera Obregón Military Base.
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Etymology
When the Creeperans first landed on the island on 28 December 1430, they named it South San Antonio Island (Creeperian Spanish: Sur Isla de San Antonio), as 28 December was the feast day of Antonio the Hermit in Creeperian Catholicism. The island was referred to by this name in official documents, however, soldiers stationed on the island gave it the nickname Susla, a portmanteau of the first words in its name, "sur" and "isla". Susla has since become the most common manner to refer to the island, however, the government continues to use the name Sur Isla de San Antonio. The island is also infrequently referred to as simply San Antonio.
The native Suslan name for the island is unknown as there is no consensus. According to some archeologists and historians, one stone carving at the Punto Primero archeological site written in the now-extinct Suslan language dated to the 13th century may infer that the native Suslans referred to the island as "the island", rendered as kinwita (𛱙𛱖𛱘𛱔𛱟). Other historians disagree, as such a name was not recorded by Creeperian explorers in the 1430s through interactions with the Suslans.
History
Early human settlements
The earliest humans arrived on the island of Susla sometime between 4500 and 3500 BC. The earliest definitive archeological evidence for human habitation—a burial site of six incomplete skeletons along the northern coast—is dated to around 3600 to 3500 BC. An archeological site, known as Punto Primero, consisting of series of wooden structures, wooden boats, and stone tools has also been found along the northern coast. The site has been dated to around 4500 BC, however, the radio carbon-dating results have been disputed by some archeologists. Modern consensus among archeologists is that the first humans on Susla arrived during the Prehistoric-Creeperian diaspora, however, however, some argue that the first humans arrived from modern-day Rakeo.
Little is known about the native Suslans who inhabited the island as they did not record their history, instead, passing on their history orally. The Suslans never organized themselves into a centralized state, instead, living in an assortment of villages which may have been united under a loose confederation. The Suslan population never exceeded 5,000. It is unknown if the Suslans had regular contact with other people groups before the 300s AD, when the earliest evidence of contact with the Manca—a group of tribals Sequoyans which existed in modern-day Nuevo Amanecer and Eastern Sequoyah—has been identified. The Suslans also maintained contact with Rakeoians, Sequoyans, and possibly the Cheyall throughout the early 2nd millennium due to the island's position between the island of Rakeo and mainland Sur.
Susla genocide
On 28 December 1430, a fleet of Creeperian explorers led by Commander Gonzalo Vázquez Luján landed on the island of Susla and named it Sur Isla San Antonio after Saint Antonio the Hermit, whose feast day was on 28 December. Vázquez Luján landed on the island while on a commission by Creeperian King Miguel III to explore, settle, and colonize modern-day Nuevo Amanecer and Eastern Sequoyah. Vázquez Luján claimed the island for Creeperopolis and appointed his second-in-command, Commander Armando Rivera Obregón, as viceroy of San Antonio. When Vázquez Luján left Susla and continued east towards the mainland, Rivera Obregón and a garrison of 50 soldiers remained on the island to trade with the natives and establish a settlement on the island's southern coast which they named Punto del Sur (modern-day Punto Sur).
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In January 1433, when Vázquez Luján and 100 soldiers set off on an expedition across northern Sequoyah, Rivera Obregón left his position as viceroy of San Antonio to administer the Captaincy General of San Juan in Vázquez Luján's place; Rivera Obregón appointed Pedro Bolívar Castro as interim viceroy. Sometime during 1433, relations between the Creeperans and the native Suslans broke down for unknown reasons resulting in the native Suslans attacking Punto del Sur and killing all 55 Creeperian soldiers and officers in the settlement, including Bolívar Castro. When Rivera Obregón returned to the island in September 1433, he and his fleet came under attack by the Suslans, and he decided to leave the island and return with more soldiers to retake the island.
On 7 April 1434, Rivera Obregón returned to Susla with 400 soldiers and proceeded to indiscriminately attack and kill all the native Suslans in order to repress the population and recapture Punto del Sur. The Creeperans recaptured Punto del Sur by 9 April and had killed around 500 Suslans. Rivera Obregón ordered his soldiers to continue killing Suslans across the island to "completely subjugate" the population, and all of the Suslans' villages across the island had been destroyed by June 1434 and the Suslans were forced to flee to El Punto, the island's highest point. Throughout the rest of 1434, the Creeperans continued to kill as many native Suslans as they could find. The mass killings of Suslans has since been described as a genocide and resulted in the almost complete extermination of the native Suslans. Modern estimates list the death toll of the 1434 massacres as around 5,000 killed. Pockets of Suslan survivors who took refuge in the interior Puntos Altos mountain range continued to engage in hit-and-run attacks against the Creeperian settlers until the 1490s, when presumably, the final native Suslans died off.
Juañero Civil War
Rivera Obregón returned to the mainland to administer the Captaincy General of San Juan in January 1435 after Vázquez Luján set off on another expedition. Rivera Obregón appointed Luís Rivera Sánchez, his cousin, as interim viceroy, however, after Vázquez Luján and his soldiers disappeared and were not located by a search party, Rivera Obregón declared himself the captain general of San Juan (governor) confirmed Rivera Sánchez as his successor. On 17 April 1457, José Vázquez Valladares, one of Vázquez Luján's illegitimate sons, initiated a war to overthrow Rivera Obregón and become the captain general of San Juan. Rivera Sánchez swore his and Susla's allegiance to Rivera Obregón, however, Rivera Obregón was killed in action on 18 August 1457 during the Battle of Chupas and Vázquez Valladares assumed office as captain general; Rivera Sánchez refused to recognize Vázquez Valladares' authority. After Vázquez Valladares was assassinated on 5 May 1459, Hugo Simán Callejas, one of Rivera Obregón's officers, became captain general and Rivera Sánchez supported Simán Callejas' authority.
Armando Figueroa Rosales, one of Vázquez Valladares' officers, continued to fight Simán Callejas' government. On 19 September 1460, Simán Callejas was killed in action during the Siege of San Juan, resulting in many of his soldiers fleeing the mainland for Susla where Rivera Sánchez offered refuge for Figueroa Rosales' opponents. In November 1460, Figueroa Rosales led an an invasion of Susla; by 19 November 1460, he had fully captured the island and captured or killed most of the island's soldiers, including Rivera Sánchez who was executed in Punto del Sur. The capture of Susla ended the Juañero Civil War, and Figueroa Rosales appointed Saúl Méndez Pareja as viceroy.
Fall of San Juan
Susla remained a part of the Captaincy General of San Juan for the remainder of Figueroa Rosales' administration as captain general, and the island remained loyal to his successors: Javier Gómez González, Samuel Ramírez Ruíz, and Carlos Nariño Enríquez. The captain general continued to appoint viceroys to govern the island and regularly sent supplies to maintain control over the island which the Creeperans had since come to see as being in a strategic position just north of the Asequi Strait.
In 1515, the Empire of Sequoyah launched an invasion San Juan, hoping to conquer the captaincy general and that Creeperopolis would not send reinforcements to support San Juan amidst the then-ongoing Twenty Years' War between the monarchy and Protestant rebels. Upon learning of the invasion, Viceroy Miguel Huerta Payés sent 150 soldiers from his garrison of 200 to support the captaincy general. After the Captaincy General of San Juan fell to the Empire of Sequoyah on 13 May 1518, many Creeperans fled the the former captaincy general's territory and took refuge in Susla before ultimately returning to mainland Creeperopolis. The Sequoyans attempted to capture the island in September 1518, however, the Creeperian garrison managed to defeat the Sequoyan army, killing or capturing most of its soldiers in the process.
The fall of San Juan and the September 1518 attack on the island left the remaining Creeperian forces in Susla weakened. Creeperopolis was still unable to send support to the island as the Twenty Years' War was still ongoing. On 18 February 1519, the Kingdom of Senvar attacked the island and managed to take control of all the island's settlements and captured Huerta Payés. Some Creeperian soldiers managed to evade captured and continued to resist Senvarian forces led by Kamachiq Llasha Michi Ñaccha from the interior mountains, as the native Suslans had done in the 1400s. The Senvarian occupation of Susla continued until 1527 when Creeperian reinforcements led by Commander Martín Cabañeras Fuentes attacked the Senvarians and recaptured the island. The Senvarian prisoners were sent back to Senvar in exchange for the return of Creeperian prisoners from the 1519 attack. As San Juan had ceased to exist, administration of Susla was transferred to San Pedro, and Captain General Rodrigo Álvarez León appointed Cabañeras Fuentes as the island's viceroy.
Use as an anti-piracy port
During Cabañeras Fuentes' tenure as viceroy, Susla became a major port for the Creeperian Navy in combatting piracy in the Senvarian Sea. Prior to 1518, most Creeperian anti-piracy efforts in the southern Senvarian Sea were conducted from San Juan as the captaincy general had larger ports and more resources to supply navy ships. The fall of San Juan, however, forced the Creeperian Navy to begin utilizing Susla as its primary anti-piracy port in the southern Senvarian Sea. In 1530, the navy constructed the Southern Prison to imprison captured pirates; around 1,700 pirates were imprisoned at the Southern Prison from 1530 to 1763, with almost all of them dying in custody or being executed.
Following the Revolution of 1565, the position of viceroy became an elected office. Viceroy Augusto Martí León was succeeded by Pedro Rivera Tejón of the Liberal Party, becoming the viceroyalty's first democratically elected viceroy. He was succeeded by Agustín Payés Murillo of the Conservative Party in 1575. His elected began a period of Conservative domination in Susla, where from 1575 to 1770, the Conservatives won thirty-five of forty viceroy elections. The Conservatives held high popular support in Susla due to the island's status as a de facto penal colony, as almost all voters in Susla were soldiers and military officers; the Creeperian military remained a highly conservative institution throughout the First Parliamentary Era.
The prison closed in 1763 after the government determined that the cost to run the prison was too expensive, however, instead of transferring all 197 prisoners incarcerated at the time to a mainland prison, Viceroy Miguel Lemus Flores had all the prisoners executed by firing squad, claiming that he feared the prisoners would revolt during the transfer and free themselves. The National Parliament ordered Lemus Flores to return to the mainland to stand for trial for the prison massacre, but he refused. Lemus Flores did not seek re-election and was succeeded by Rafael Sánchez Sánchez who prevented Lemus Flores from standing trial on the mainland. King Manuel III pardoned Lemus Flores in September 1771 following the overthrow of the National Parliament. After Sánchez Sánchez's death in 1777, all of Susla's viceroys until 1834 were independents, having no affiliation to the military or any political party.
Under the Captaincy General of Rakeo
Following his rise to power in June 1833, Emperor Adolfo III, he sought to reward military officers loyal to his rule by promoting them to administrative positions across Creeperopolis. In July 1834, Adolfo III directly appointed Colonel Cristóbal Valdéz Juárez as viceroy of Susla. Military officers appointed directly by the emperor would govern Susla until the end of the Adolfisto—the historiographic term given to the period in Creeperian history when Adolfo III ruled as emperor—in 1887.
In 1836, with the outbreak of the Great Surian War, military presence on Susla increased to prevent it from falling to Castillianan or Salisfordian forces, as Creeperopolis had not yet joined the war. Creeperopolis officially joined the war in 1837 in support of Castilliano. In January 1838, Chief Admiral Jorge Montt Álvarez utilized Susla as a jumping point for a land-and-sea invasion of Rakeo, during which, Valdéz Juárez assisted in the initial invasion. The conquest of Rakeo ended in a Creeperian victory in 1840, and he was appointed by Adolfo III as the first captain general of Rakeo. Due to Susla's strategic position near Rakeo, its administration was transfered from San Pedro to the Captaincy General of Rakeo in 1841. That year, on 16 March 1841, Sequoyah attempted to capture Susla to utilize it as a naval port to combat a Castillianan invasion of Sequoyah; the Sequoyan attack was repelled, and Sequoyah ultimately withdrew from the war two months later, paying reparations to Creeperopolis for the attack on Susla.
Creeperopolis–Rakeo dispute
Modern era
Geography
Susla's approximate latitude–longitude location is 54°00′S and 67°00′W. It is located just north of the Asequi Strait in the Senvarian Sea. Creeperopolis is located to the north and west, Sequoyah is located to the southwest, and Rakeo is located to the southeast. Susla covers a land area of 935 square miles (2,420 km2), making it the third largest island in the Senvarian Sea after Isla Conejo Mayor and Illa Onza. The island is surrounded by 82 minor islands, islets, and rocks, some of which become part of the main island during low tide.
Susla is the tallest point of the now-submerged Asequi land bridge, which remained above sea level until around 10,000 years ago. Prior to the submerged land bridge's discovery in 1953, the Creeperans who controlled the island believed that it was formed by a long-extinct volcano, a belief which, according to historian Andrés Murillo Sanjurjo, derived from native Suslan oral traditions.
Topology
The island's largest lakes are Lake Vázquez and Lake Luján.
Climate
Susla typically experiences northwesterly winds due to the island's location south of 30°S and at the end of a north-south oriented body of water. Ocean currents flow south from the Senvarian Sea, through the Asequi Strait, and to the Southern Ocean. Susla is entirely classified as a subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc); it is a temperate maritime climate which experiences no dry season and cold summers. On average, Susla receives around 24 inches (610 mm) of precipitation per year, some of which falls as snow during the winter months (June through September).
The following table displays the average weather data for Susla from 1990 to 2020 and its extremes from 1890 to the present.
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record high °F (°C) | 75.4 (24.1) |
72.5 (22.5) |
70.8 (21.6) |
69.5 (20.8) |
63.4 (17.4) |
58.0 (14.4) |
57.6 (14.2) |
58.4 (14.7) |
61.2 (16.2) |
64.5 (18.1) |
67.8 (19.9) |
72.5 (22.5) |
75.4 (24.1) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 54.3 (12.4) |
54.1 (12.3) |
53.1 (11.7) |
48.4 (9.1) |
44.4 (6.9) |
41.0 (5.0) |
40.1 (4.5) |
41.2 (5.1) |
45.5 (7.5) |
49.6 (9.8) |
50.9 (10.5) |
53.2 (11.8) |
48.0 (8.9) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 48.6 (9.2) |
46.7 (8.2) |
45.1 (7.3) |
41.0 (5.0) |
37.5 (3.1) |
34.2 (1.2) |
35.0 (1.7) |
36.7 (2.6) |
39.4 (4.1) |
42.2 (5.7) |
45.9 (7.7) |
48.3 (9.1) |
41.7 (5.4) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 42.8 (6.0) |
41.4 (5.2) |
39.3 (4.1) |
37.2 (2.9) |
32.8 (0.4) |
29.1 (−1.6) |
28.8 (−1.8) |
30.1 (−1.1) |
33.0 (0.6) |
36.8 (2.7) |
39.4 (4.1) |
41.0 (5.0) |
35.9 (2.2) |
| Record low °F (°C) | 26.2 (−3.2) |
24.3 (−4.3) |
21.9 (−5.6) |
19.2 (−7.1) |
17.8 (−7.9) |
13.9 (−10.1) |
14.1 (−9.9) |
15.8 (−9.0) |
19.7 (−6.8) |
20.5 (−6.4) |
22.4 (−5.3) |
24.9 (−3.9) |
13.9 (−10.1) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 2.14 (54) |
2.08 (53) |
2.01 (51) |
1.81 (46) |
1.94 (49) |
1.95 (50) |
2.07 (53) |
1.99 (51) |
1.93 (49) |
1.91 (49) |
1.96 (50) |
2.08 (53) |
23.87 (606) |
| Average precipitation days | 10.6 | 9.4 | 8.2 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 7.6 | 7.0 | 6.2 | 6.3 | 6.9 | 8.2 | 9.9 | 94.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 81 | 83 | 84 | 83 | 83 | 84 | 88 | 90 | 87 | 86 | 85 | 82 | 85 |
| Source: Bureau of Meteorology and Weather | |||||||||||||
Demographics
Ethnicity
Susla has a total population of 4,282 as of the 2020 census. Around 1,800 of Susla's residents are military personnel stationed at the Armando Rivera Obregón Military Base, most of whom live in Punto Sur and account for over half of the settlement's population. Creeperans compose the vast majority Susla's residents, accounting for 85.57 percent of the population. Most of the Creeperans on Susla are military personnel, descendants of the island's colonizers, or post-colonial settlers from other parts of Creeperopolis. Rakeoians are the largest ethnic minority in Susla, accounting for 10.38 percent of the population. Most Rakeoians residing in Susla are descendants of exiles from the Rakeoian Civil War, however, some are Rakeoian defectors who have fled the country since the 1950s and have attempted to assimilate into the Rakeoian population to evade capture. Sequoyans account for 3.19 of the population, most of whom are immigrants. The remaining 0.86 percent is composed of Atlántidans, Castillianans, and Senvarians, most of whom are military personnel.
Religion
Susla's population predominantly adheres to Creeperian Catholicism. Susla is part of the Diocese of Nuevo San Juan. The San Antonio Basilica is located in Punto Sur, and each of the other municipalities have a church to hold local services. There are no places of worship for any other religious denomination, however, the ruins of a Senvarian Protestant chapel which was destroyed in 1527 after the end of Senvarian rule of Susla is located in Punto Sur.
Rakeoian defectors
Since the 1950s, Rakeoian defectors have been fleeing Rakeo due to a lack of economic opportunities, out of fear of reprisals from the Rakeoian government, and in order to avoid military conscription. Due to Susla's geographic position between Rakeo and the Surian mainland, Rakeoians fleeing the country have utilized Susla as a jumping point to flee to mainland Sur or Ecros. Most defectors arrive in Susla on rafts from Rakeo or hire smugglers to to drop them off just off of the Susleño coast.
Although some Rakeoian defectors have attempted to integrate into the Rakeoian population already present on Susla, the vast majority only seek temporary shelter in Susla as Creeperopolis has an extradition treaty with Rakeo to deport captured defectors back to Rakeo. The Rakeoian Navy regularly conducts patrols in the Senvarian Sea and the Asequi Strait to prevent defections, and the Rakeoian communities in Susla are monitored by the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), the Creeperian secret police force, to capture any Rakeoian defectors residing in Susla's municipalities; figures of Rakeoians caught and deported from Susla have not been published by the DINA.
Government
Municipalities
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Susla's capital and largest settlement is Punto Sur, which also holds the status of a municipality. The majority of the island's 4,282 residents live within Punto Sur, with the remaining residents living in the island's five other municipalities: El Pingüino, La'Costa Gris, Punto Norte, Sandoval, and Zacaya. All of the municipalities, except for Punto Norte, are located along the island's southern coast in order to avoid the northwesterly which blow into the island's northern shoreline.
The following table lists the municipalities of Susla, their dates of establishment, their populations, and their mayors.
| Municipality | Established | Population | Mayor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Punto Sur | 17 January 1431[note 1] | 3,011 | Gustavo Vides Zárate |
| Zacaya | 8 March 1715 | 569 | Andrés Carpio León |
| Punto Norte | 8 March 1715 | 304 | Alfredo Sánchez Videla |
| Sandoval | 15 December 1816 | 185 | Guillermo Quesada Pérez |
| El Pingüino | 15 December 1816 | 170 | Domingo Duarte Flores |
| La'Costa Gris | 1 January 1973 | 43 | Ernesto Zapata Piñón |
| Total | 4,282 | ||
In 1714, with the establishment of municipalities to grant further democratic rights to settlements smaller than the cities which dominated the country's viceroyalties, Viceroy Antonio Lemus Castellón—who was also serving as the mayor of Punto Sur—successfully petitioned to have Susla divided into three municipalities in order to weaken the power of Punto Sur, as he would have been prohibited to hold the positions of viceroy and mayor at the same time following the 1714 reform. The municipalities of Punto Norte and Zacaya were split out of Punto Sur, despite Punto Sur containing over 90 percent of Susla's population at the time.
The boundary between Punto Sur and Zacaya was clearly defined by the course of the island's mountain range, but the boundary between Punto Sur and Punto Norte was not clearly defined; Punto Norte claimed that it controlled all of the territory north of the island's mountain range, while Punto Sur claimed that Punto Norte only controlled a 10 miles (16 km) radius around the municipality's center. The dispute was not resolved until 1816 when Viceroy Alfonso Fuentes Carpio established two more municipalities, Sandoval (which was split from Zacaya) and El Pingüino (which was split from undisputed Punto Sur territory). With the formation of new municipalities, Fuentes Carpio partitioned northern Susla in half between Punto Norte and Punto Sur, however, the Freixa Archipelago continued to be disputed until 1891 when the National Parliament awarded the archipelago to Punto Norte. In 1973, Viceroy Victoriano Zacatecas Salinas split the municipality of La'Costa Gris from Punto Sur, forming Susla's current municipal boundaries.
Politics
The entire island of Susla is designated as one of San Juan's sixteen viceroyalties. Susla has been administered by San Juan since 1949, prior to which it was administered by Rakeo from 1841 to 1918, by San Pedro from 1527 to 1841, and by the Captaincy General of San Juan from 1430 to 1518. Until the Creeperian annexation of Nuevo Amanecer in December 2022, Susla was the southernmost viceroyalty in Creeperopolis.
Susla is governed by a viceroy who is appointed by the captain general of San Juan with the consent of the Creeperian emperor for an unfixed term length. The viceroy of Susla also automatically served as the mayor of Punto Sur until the 1714 municipal reforms made such a dual mandate illegal. The current viceroy is Mauricio Llano Valera, a member of the Creeperian Initiative (the sole-legal political party in Creeperopolis) who has held the office since 4 November 2017. All of the island's municipalities are governed by a mayor appointed by the viceroy. All mayors are required by law to be members of the Creeperian Initiative.
Military
The Armando Rivera Obregón Military Base is located at Punto Sur and is garrisoned by units of the Creeperian Army, Navy, and Air Force. The units garrisoned at the base are the 92nd Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel Felipe Dávalos Peña, the 43rd Naval Division commanded by Rear Admiral Gonzalo Lobos Juárez, and the 49th Air Force Squadron commanded by Major Augusto Tejón Herrera. The military base itself is commanded by Brigadier José Durán Gallegos.
In total, the military base compliments around 1,800 military personnel, most of whom live in Punto Sur. The 92nd Infantry Regiment operates several personnel transporters, armored vehicles, halftracks, and utility vehicles. The 43rd Naval Division operates one destroyer, one frigate, one submarine, and three patrol boats. The 49th Air Force Squadron operates ten Maroto Botín FA-16 fighter jets, one Maroto Botín C-5 cargo carrier, two Maroto Botín H-3 utility helicopters, several Maroto Botín NT-2 drones, and two Maroto Botín MB-9 personnel transport aircraft; the military base can also accommodate up to four additional medium-sized aircraft and four additional helicopters.
Infrastructure
The municipalities of Susla are all connected by San Juan Departmental Highway 12, a two-lane highway originating in Zacaya in the south and terminating in Punto Norte in the north. The southern section of the highway was paved in 2011, but the northern section from El Pingüino to Punto Norte remains unpaved. Creeperian Airlines Connect has a special agreement with the Creeperian Armed Forces to utilize the Armando Rivera Obregón Military Base as a destination airport to service all of Susla's municipalities. The Ministry of Transportation also operates a daily ferry service from Punto Sur to Nuevo San Juan and San Juan Diego through the military base. The Punto Sur Medical Center operates two Maroto Botín HC-3AM air ambulance helicopters out of the Armando Rivera Obregón Military Base to the viceroyalty's other municipalities, all of which have one helipad specifically designated for the air ambulance service; there is no commercial helicopter service in Susla.
Economy
Fishing
Tourism
Ecology
Plants
Birds
Mammals
Marine ecosystem
See also
Notes
- ↑ Punto Sur as a settlement was established on 17 January 1431, however, it did not achieve the status as a municipality until the Act of Municipal Representation went into effect on 8 March 1715.
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