Because the Angry Bear River is only navigable to Desperado Falls, that town became an important link in Tamaria's transportation network.  Most passenger traffic bound for Kameron disembarks there to board river boats for journeys further south.  The efficiency of Tamaria's rail network elevated the town of Red Claw to the status as the main center for importing commodities and exporting manufactured goods.  It's cheaper to ship further north by rail than to fight against the considerable current of the Angry Bear River.  (Due to political and economic constraints, no direct rail lines linked Tamaria with Kameron prior to the establishment of direct trade with Tamaria by Lynden Velez.)  Additionally, though Vengeance is Tamaria's second-largest city, and the plateau complex drained by the Venom River  ranks as the most densely populated region in the country, local geography and river conditions at the confluence of the Venom and Desolation rivers prevented the Tamarians from building large docking facilities there.

The region to the south, accessible by the Tualitin and Virgin river systems, is too sparsely populated to warrant much commercial traffic.  The Desolation RIver connects with Broken Wing Lake, another area of dense Tamarian settlement, which is located to the east of this map.

See Tamaria and Northeastern Kameron

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