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Bistrita

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Bistrita (river)

The source of the river Bistrita (Bistrita dubbed Dorée Moldovan or to make a difference with the other Bistrita River is a tributary of the Somes, it routes the department of Bistrita Nasaud) is located in the mountains Rodnei, located in the north - is the Eastern Carpathians, in the department of Bistrita-Nasaud.

The river course the Romanian region of Bukovina to its mouth at the Siret. She travels Calimani Mountains, Mount Ceahlau, with its megalithic stones and plateaus, Mount Rarau and Haghimas, with piles of rocks, Mount Tarcău with its jagged peaks.

The flora of the valley is rather rare yew, the edelweiss, the star of silver, shoe Venus and blood of brave young man (Nigritella Nigritella rubra and nigra).

The fauna is well represented with the imperial eagle, the capercaillie, vulture ash, brown bear, deer, deer, wild boar, lynx marten.

The people kept on their traditional folk costumes and also the architecture of villages.
Bistrita is known in the Romanian literature through the stories of Ion Creanga, the classic of Romanian literature who described his travels in the children book "Souvenir d'enfance."

Another writer Romanian, Mihai Sadoveanu placed the action of his novel "The hachereau" in the valley of Bistrita Dorée.

Bistrita was known for floating timber. The transport of wood on the river raft was accentuated in the nineteenth century and continued even after 1948.

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