Danube Delta

Students: Prica Antonela Vlad Renata Cristina

The Danube Delta is situated in South-Eastern part of Romania towards the Black Sea. It splits in two West of the city Tulcea, and the Southern distributary splits again in the East, thus froming the 3 main distributaries of the Danube Delta. The Danube Delta is the area with the lowest elevetion across the country. It is a natural reserve recognized worldwide for its beautiful landscape.
Danube Arm Chilia Sulina Saint George Length (Km) 120 64 70

The flora consists of reeds, paura, willow, ash, alder, poplar and elm ( the most commonly known forst in the Danube Delta is the Letea Forest) . The Danube Delta is the largest area covered by reed on the Globe.

The fauna consists of 320 species of birds and 45 species of fish. The forests Letea and Caraorman are unique in Europe ; here we find over 5500 species of plants and animals.
The lakes, canals and the distributaries are full of fish and the people living here don't have much food.

Yesterday, we went to Tulcea. Here we visited The Eco-Turistic Museum of The Danube Delta and got in the harbor because we had to cross over with the boat, to Sulina. After we got there, we took a walk to the old lighthouse in Sulina, which now serves as a museum. It is 23 meters high and it's the host of several clothes and jewelery belonging to nobleman that died hundreds of years ago. Many Greek, German, Italian and French people died in Sulina, making the Maritime Cemetery known worldwide; the princess Ecaterina Maruzi also died here.

In Sulina the writer Jean Bart was born, and his leather chair with armrests shaped as a lions head, on which he sat and wrote, is still kept in the old lighthouse. After we left Sulina, we visited the Saint George distributary, the most famous fishing zone in the country, and after that the Sulina distributary where you can see the border betweeen Romania and Ucraine. The Danube Delta is an area that anyone should visit at least once in a life time.