We won’t know unless we look a little deeper. After all, even if it isn’t based on any particular island, it would be cool to see if we could nail down where Catan would be like if it were real. What about the game itself? It may be it is just a random island in the Azores collection, or, and bear with me here – what if Catan aligns to one of them in particular? Either intentionally or unintentionally, it would be an interesting thing to find out. You see, the Azores Islands are actually a collection of nine islands, and so far we have only used three secondary data sources to determine the location of the game. That seems fair.īut, I feel we can do better. We could pass Catan off as based on the Azores Islands, and thus it is a fictitious island in the same region. The good news is the Azores Islands are in the North Atlantic Ocean – so we can have one large green tick and a sticky gold star for our efforts. Right now, I could shut my laptop off and brush my hands together, happy that we have nailed down the potential location of Catan to the Azores Islands. So, It Could Be Based On The Azores Islands – That’s Sorted, Right? Since Klaus Teuber created Catan, we will go with his opinion as fact. Firstly, the direction places us in the Atlantic Ocean, around the Azores Islands however, the origin changes depending on the source. Looking at that information, we have both a direction and a contradiction. A bit more digging reveals that this would position the island somewhere southwest of Southern France/Eastern Germany ( source). There is a novel, written by Rebecca Gable, which I haven’t read – but according to the Wikipedia summary, Catan is southwest of “The Land of Franks”.In the same interview, Klaus says the settlers were first inspired by Vikings ( Source). On HistoryBuff, an interview with Klaus Teuber states that he started off thinking Catan was Iceland, but then this changed to the Azores Islands over time.The Catan Wiki states that the original settlers came from Germany, and that they found Catan in the Atlantic Ocean ( Source).For this, we’re going to use several different sources from around the Internet. That is a fair amount to go on, however, we can do better. This means there are slightly more farmland and woodland than there are mountainous or clay-rich regions. The proportions of all five are roughly the same, with slightly more emphasis on wood, grain, and sheep.It has five main resources – ore, brick, sheep, grain, and wood.To answer this question we are going to need to piece together different assortments of information from various different places. This is probably not the Catan Klaus Teuber meant when he created the game…after all…Paraguay is landlocked. Let’s make the assumption that the Catan we know in the game is somewhere else. I could just answer this question now, but something doesn’t add up. That being said, World Weather Online has a forecast for the small village of Catan (where it is currently clear, with a high of 23 at the time of writing) in the Neembucu region of Paraguay so it is probably a real place (just because Google can’t find it doesn’t mean it’s not real). There is, according to one blog a Catan in Paraguay however, typing Catan into Google Maps yields no results. To work this out we are going to need to look at a few things – so let’s start with the basics. Let’s don our sleuth hats, Internet, and grab our magnifying glasses. That being said, I refuse to believe it is random, so I’ve decided to do a bit of research to find out where Catan is…or at least where could it be if it were a real place? Is Catan A Real Place? Each time Settlers of Catan is played I find myself wondering about where it was actually based on if, in fact, it is based on anywhere in particular. Is Catan a real place? It’s a question that many a gamer has thought to themselves over the past decade.
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