Cormoran Resort

Danube Delta - Climate

by codrutz

The climate is continental in the Danube Delta, influenced by the vicinity of the sea and the abundance of water from the inside.

The anual average temperature: 11°C; average temperature (13:00 hours) of the months: july 24°C, september 21°C.

The lowest nebulousness in the country, low precipitation (annual average 350 mm). Air moisture in the summer time (14:00 hours): cca 60% inside and 70% in the litoral zone.

Go to Crisan, in the heart of Delta

by AndreeaMonica

Take the boat from Tulcea and you need 2-3 hours to get in the middle of the beatiful and silent Delta.

You can stay in agrotouristic pensions (the fisherman have rooms for guests) and you can make daily trips by small boats on small green chanels.

For accomodation visit the site
http://www.agroturism.com
(Go on the map and select "Delta Dunarii")

Tulcea - the gateway to the mirific Danube Delta

by codrutz

"THE DANUBE DELTA"

Oddly enough, the Danube Delta (UNESCO Heritage) isn't listed as a touristic destination on VT. Hopefully. after I'll finish my pages and talk to the VT guys I will manage to transfer this to its own location.

"A overview of the Danube River and its Delta"

The Danube, springs from Germany and it gathers all the tributary streams from 10 countries and crosses 4 capital cities. After covering 2860 km and before following into the Black Sea, it forms a delta. Related to the surface of Romania, the Danube Delta is situated in the Southeastern part of the country, it has the shape of the Greek letter "delta" and it is bordered in the Southwestern part by Dobrogea Plateau, in the Northern part by the Ukrainian border and in the Eastern part by the Black Sea.

The Danube Delta is crossed by the parallel latitude of 45º North and by the meridian longitude of 29º East.
Its surface, together with the complex of lagoons Razim-Sinoe measures 5050 km²; from which 732 km² belong to Ukraine. Delta alone has a surface of 2540 km² and this surface increases every year with 40 m because of the 67 million tones of alluvial deposits brought by the river.

"Danube Delta - main attractions"

The Danube Delta, a buffering interface between the Danube river catchment (805, 300 sq. km and the Western Black Sea (5,165 sq. km) is a unique place not only in Europe, but also among other deltaic ecosystems due to its high biodiversity, to its renewable natural resources and to its beautiful scenery doubled by its cultural sites remnants and worth. The Danube Delta is a large scientific laboratory for a whole range of research-workers and explorers, whether ecologists, biologists, botanists, zoologists, ornithologists, geologists, geographers etc. as it is singles out by being:
* the youngest land in Europe (it grows larger by 40 m of land every year);
* the second largest delta in Europe (Volga is the first) and the 23rd in the world;
* the third in ecological significance among the 300 reserves of the world;
* a highly productive area generating a large range of biological resources;
* one of the largest and most compact reed areas in the world (240,000 ha);
* a place with the richest ornithological fauna in the world (over 250 species);
* a combination of natural and man-made ecosystems and ecotones, i.e. fresh water, sea water, terrestrial ecotones, running and stagnant waters, marshes, easily flooded zones, river levees, maritime levees, reclamation zones for agriculture, pisciculture, forestry etc.. In the Danube Delta there are islands of old forests with subtropical species of vegetation rare for this part of the world placed between 45 degrees latitude north and 29 degrees longitude east, at half-distance between the Equator and the North Pole;
* the most important wetland area in South Eastern Europe, with a significant role to the regional and global water cycle;
* an area of highest diversity with insects, birds and fishes and a crossroads for migratory birds;
* a place where globally endangered and therefore rare species of birds are to be found, like Dalmatian pelicans, pygmy cormorants, red-breasted geese, or the Pelecanus crispus, the Pelecanus onocratslus, Egretta alba, Egretta garzeta.
* a zone of fisheries covering some 90 species of fresh, brackish and salt water fishes, whether sedentary or migratory, among which rare species like the Acipenseriadae;
* one of the fewest places in the world which shelter mammals like Mustella lutreola and the otter (Lutra lutra).