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Geographical situation of Romania through Europe

Carpates Rumanian,  Carpates Orientals (since the border of north to the Valley of Prahova ), maximum altitude in the Rodna Mounts: the top Pietrosul (2 303 m)

Carpates Southerners (since the valley of Prahova to the corridor Timis-Encircle-Darkened-Strei), maximum altitude in the Fagaras Mounts: the Moldoveanu top is with (2 543 m).  

Carpates Western (since the Valley of the Danube , in the south, until A the Valley of Somes, in north), the altitude of the Curcubata top is (1 848) m. 

At the interior of the arc carpatic the Plate extends from Transylvania (400 to 700 m of altitude). 

In the North-West, the Plate of Somes, with the east, the Plate of Moldavia and with south-east, the Plate of Dobroudja. 

The most important plain is the Plain of the Low Danube, the principal agricultural zone of the country.

The Delta of the Danube , located at the north of the Plate of Dobroudja, is the youngest shape of relief of Romania.

It  the three arms by which the Danube is thrown in the Black Sea : Chilia, Sulina and Sf. Gheorghe. 

Surface of the Rumanian Delta of the Danube east of 4 340 km2, including 78% submerged. 

The catchment area of Romania has for principal component the Danube , which bathes the south of the country over a length of 1 075 km (on the whole, 2 850 km).

The other important rivers are the rivers: Wall (768 km), Olt (736 km), Prut (716 km), Siret (596 km), Ialomita (410 km), Somes (388 km), Arges (344 km), Jiu (331 km), Buzau (324 km), Bistrita (290 km). 

Siret
The Siret River takes its source in Carpates (Eastern) of North, in Ukraine, in the area of Bucovine of North; with the altitude of 1238m.

The overall length: 706 km to the Danube (close to the town of Galati). The length of Siret is of 559 km on the Rumanian territory.

The catchment area: 44.855 km2.

Its affluents are: Moldova, Bistrita, Suceava, Barlad, Trotus, Putna, and Buzau.
The cities crossed by Siret are: Siret (city), Pascani, Novel, Bacau, Adjud, and Galati.

Many work were to realize in order to avoid the floods, dams on 363 km; It is the direction of Water SIRET based with Bacau which deals with its catchment area, most important is in north of the country.

The valley Bistrita
The source of the river of Bistrita (called Bistrita Gilded or Moldavian to make the difference with the other Bistrita river which is an affluent of the Naps, it course the department of Bistrita Nasaud) is in the Rodnei mounts, located in the North-East of Carpates Eastern, in the department of Bistrita-Nasaud.
The river course the Rumanian area of Bucovine to its mouth in Siret. It traverses the Calimani Mounts, the Ceahlau mount, with its megalithic stones and its plates, the Mount Rarau and Haghimas, with clusters of rocks, the Tarcau Mount with its notched peaks.

The flora of the valley is rather rare the yew, edelweiss, the money star, the lady's slipper and the Blood of the brave young man (Nigritelle will rubra and Nigritella will nigra).

Fauna is represented by the imperial eagle, the cock of heather, the ashed vulture, the brown bear, stags, the roe-deer, wild boars, the lynx the marten.

Inhabitants one preserved their traditional popular costumes and also, the architecture of the villages.
Bistrita is known in the Rumanian literature by the means of the tales of Ion Creanga, the traditional one of the Rumanian literature which described its voyages of children in the book “Memory of childhood”.

Another Rumanian writer, Mihai Sadoveanu placed the action of its novel “the hatchet” in the valley of Bistrita Doreen.
Bistrita was known for the flotation of wood. The transport of wood on the river in raft was accentuated at the XIX centuries and it also continued after 1948.

The lakes, some 2 300 (and more than 1 150 ponds) add up 2 620 km2. 

Most important are: Razelm (415 Km2), Sinoe (171 Km2), Brates (21 Km2), Tasaul (20 Km2), Techirghiol (12 Km2), Snagov (5,8 Km2).

The climate is moderate continental, with the oceanic coming from the west, Mediterranean of the south-west and continental influences of the North-East. 

The annual average temperature is 8 degrees Celsius in north and 11 degrees Celsius in the south. 

The annual average of precipitations does not exceed the 700 mm. 

The population of Romania counted 22 430 457 inhabitants on January 1, 2001 , with a density of 95, 7 inhabitants per km2 (the Institute National of Statisticsc and of economic surveys). 

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	Ceahlau
	Rodna Mountains
	Obcinele Bucovinei
	Tartaria

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	Bistrita
	Mures
	Olt
	Prut

Siret