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Jiu River



River in the south of Romania, (in the historical region of Walachia or sometimes called Tara Romaneasca)
It arises from the confluence of two currents: Jiu East and West, which was derived from the Parang Mountains Valcan and its length is 331 km.
La Vallée de la riviere Jiu - BUCOVINE.com

The Jiu River crosses the department of Hunedoara, Gorj and Dolj before emptying into the Danube a few miles upstream from the Bulgarian town of Oryahovo.

Its basin is 10.070 km ².

Jiu waters cities Petroşani, Bumbeşti-Jiu, Targu Jiu, Filiasi and Craiova.


The tributaries are the Jiu Susita the Jales, the Bistrita, the Sadu, the Tismana the Jiltu the Motru the Gilort and Amaradia.

The Val de Jiu is renowned as the scene of the childhood of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi .

The family was the sculptor is a native of Mount Valcan or river take its source.

"The Jiu Valley" was the basin of the coal mine was operated one hundred years.

The mines in the Jiu Valley were mostly firm, there remains a few still active. On the Jiu River rafting are practice.





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