Hotei Regio
What Hotei Regio is
Hotei Regio is a regio — a large area distinguished by its brightness or colour — on Titan, 500 km across, centred at 26.0° S, 78.0° W. It is the 29th largest named feature on Titan and the 5th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
One of the seven gods of happiness in Japanese Buddhism. He is the god of contentment, good fortune, and cheerfulness, and he is always smiling. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2009, under the theme it applies to every regio on Titan. Of the 5 features of this class catalogued on Titan, the naming categories run Roman (1), China (1), Egypt (1), Puerto Rico (1).
What it would take to settle Hotei Regio
Titan scores 32.6 as a world. That number is the same for every square metre of it — but sunlight, water, radiation and the ground under your feet are not. This is the same question asked at 26.0° S, 78.0° W.
What this spot has going for it is sunlight — 91% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Titan gets. What works against it is temperature — about -179 °C mean at this latitude.
Computed from Hotei Regio's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 74% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 2 axes were dropped as not applicable to Titan (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Titan and are already counted in the world's own index, not again here.
What this cannot see: elevation. Slope, local shadowing and the polar “peaks of eternal light” — ridge tops near the poles of a barely tilted world that catch sun almost continuously while a crater floor kilometres away never does — need a terrain model this does not have. Where a real mission targets a pole, that is usually why.