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Prut

The Prut river has a length of 953 klm,
Its source is located in the Carpathian Ukraine (Carpatii Padurosi) from where he took the direction towards the east and south to east after.
Carte du Prut et Mer Noire- BUCOVINE.com - Copyright © 2008

Carte du Prut et Mer Noire- BUCOVINE.com - Copyright © 2008

It flows into the Danube near the town near Reni and Galati.

On most of its length it forms the natural border between Romania and the current territory of the Republic of Moldova.

Between the two world wars, the river was navigable to the city of Ungheni but navigation was abandoned.

It noted that hydro energy are totally inadequate, causing devastating floods regularly.

Its main tributaries are: Ceremus, Jijia, Bahlui and Baseu.

The largest city is going through Cernauti on the current territory of Ukraine and also the cities of Savena, Iasi, Husi (Romania) and Ungheni, Cahul (Republic of Moldova) is near this river.

Most of the river basin is located on the territory of Romania, 742 km.
After the proclamation of independence of Ukraine and the fall of the Soviet Union in the context of the new boundaries, the river also marks the border with Ukraine over 39km, and the border with the Republic of Moldova, on 681 km of which almost 70km represented by Lake "Stanca Costesti.

History:

The river was known in antiquity as "Pyretus. The river begins in the mountains like a river very fast and to the community, it becomes a river plain, with a large tub and branched, with a width between 50 to 180 meters, or the speed of the river visibly declining.

In periods of low, the Prut river spills over large areas.
It is the writer Mihail Sadoveanu who wrote one of the most beautiful pages on the river, fascinated by the diversity and aquatic animal, considered the beginning of the twentieth century as a paradise of nature.

In the last decades of the twentieth century was the most parched marshes became farmland: from 1976 was built a dam near Costesti Stanca and for localities to neighborhood.

Note:
To date, the Prut is the border's most easterly of the European Union.

Text of Cleopatra Lorintiu