At the end of a course of over 2,840 km,
collecting the water from a vast hydrological basin that exceeds
8% of the area of Europe, the Danube (the second largest river
of the Continent) has during the last 16,000 years built at
its mouth with the Black Sea one of the most beautiful deltas
in Europe, perhaps in the whole world. The Danube
Delta is famous as one of the greatest wetlands of
the Earth.
The current geomorphology of the Danube Delta
is the result of the interaction between the river and the
sea during the Holocene period. At the beginning of the
Holocene, when the level of the sea reached approximately
the nowadays level, there was the so-called Danube
Gulf. At its mouth, between the Jibrieni promontory
to the north and the Murighiol- Dunavãt promontory
to the south, was formed the Letea- Caraorman levees. The
alluvial materials were carried along the sea shore, by
the marine currents, to the north, to the mouth of the Nistru,
Bug and Nipru rivers.
The oldest Danube branch, Sfantu Gheorghe,
flew into the sea through a large passage situated to the
southern part of Letea - Caraorman levees forming the very
first Danube delta: the Sfantu Gheorghe
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The project Development of the potential for a sustainable tourism in a NATURA 2000 wetland: Danube Delta study case – implemented in a partnership between WES Brugge (Belgium), Authority of Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve and Tulcea County Council, besides which other institutions / bodies have been nearby (WWF, Danube Delta National Institute, International Association Nature Friends and the Romanian branch, Romanian Association for Ecotourism, Romanian Ornithologic Society – Tulcea branch, others), having also the contribution of UNESCO Commission for Romania – had in view the realization of a strategic plan for sustainable tourism development in DDBR area.
STRATEGY PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN THE DANUBE DELTA (october 2008)
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The project Development of the potential for sustainable tourism in a Natura 2000 wetland area: the Danube Delta case was implementd with the financial support from The The Flemish Government – through the Department for Foreign Affairs, within the bilateral Flanders – Romania Programme of Cooperation for 2006 – between April 2007 and October 2008.
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In 2-3 of June was officialy launched the european project
“Danube Delta - Landscape of the year 2007-2009”.
Due to it’s unic value, this area was elected by International
Friends of Nature to be The “Landscape of the year
2007-2009”. details
