Costa Caballo

Costa Caballo, formally the Free State of Costa Caballo (Altéan: Estado Libre de Costa Caballo, Jelbic: Caballé Lofrkadéknstat), is a former Altéan colony on the southeastern coast of Alfarorà. It borders Flakmojrzaé to the northwest. It gained its independence from Altéa in 1824 after the Costa Caballian War of Independence. Since its independence, Costa Caballo is ruled by a junta and claims a great deal of territory, but in practice central control is limited outside of the trading cities and towns established during the colonial period, and various tribal chieftains (Jelbic: Bék) contend for power both with each other and with the junta directly.
==Etymology==
The Altéan name Costa Caballo means "Horse Coast" and was given by Altéan explorers due to the large herds encountered on their arrival. The Jelbic name for the same area, Awépylz, means "High Place". The name is a reference to the state's location in the high steppe of southern Alfarorà, the historic homeland of the Jelbic people. 
==History==
==Geography and climate==
===Geography===
Costa Caballo is primarily high, dry steppe, and is the historic geographic center of Jelbic culture. Its border with Flakmojrzaé is formed by the natural boundaries of the (MOUNTAINS) in the northwest, the (NORTHERN RIVER) in the north, and the Rio Elizalde in the western high steppe.
Costa Caballo has coastline along the (NORTH OF US OCEAN) to the north and east and the (SOUTH OF US OCEAN) to the south and west.
===Climate===
Costa Caballo has four distinct climatic zones: dry, high steppe in the west; cool temperate lower steppe on the north and eastern coast; subarctic lowlands and lower steppe on the southern coast; and highland in the mountainous north. Cold antarctic air from the X OCEAN exerts heavy influence on Costa Caballo.
Winters in Costa Caballo are usually long, cold, and dry, and summers are short and dry.
Along the temperate northeastern coast, there is generally sufficient rainfall to sustain agriculture. 
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