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The English version of the Buila-Vanturarita National Park web page - September 2007
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CONTACT
Address:
Pietei 7, Horezu Town, Valcea County
Tel.: 0250/860.157
Fax: 0250/860.180
Email:office@buila.ro
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- Location
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The Buila-Vânturariţa Massif is located in the central-northern part of Valcea County is one of the Căpăţânii Mountains massifs.
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- Access points to the Park
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There are 6 access points to Buila-Vânturariţa National Park:
3 from Costeşti village. One on the Bistriţa Valley and two on the Costeşti Valley: Bistriţa, Pietreni-Prislop and Pietreni-Valea Morii. One from Bărbăteşti village and on the Otăsău Valley. One from Cheia village and on the Cheia Valley. One from Băile Olăneşti city, on the Olăneşti Valley.
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- The Map of the Park
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The Map of the Buila-Vânturariţa National Park - published in the Romanian Official Paper no 38/12.01.2005.
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- Geology
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From the tectonics point of view, the area of the Buila-Vânturariţa National Park is part of the Carpathian Orogenesis. The Buila-Vânturariţa Massif is part of the Getic Knapp, which is a unit of the Middle Dacides of ...
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- Geomorphology
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Unlike the Căpăţânii Mountains that it is part of, the Buila-Vânturariţa Massif has particular characteristics, specific to the limestone ridges, either linear or circular.
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- Hydrology
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The entire hydrographical network of the Buila-Vânturariţa Massif depends on the Olt River, through its direct or indirect affluents on the right, which have a north-to-south ...
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- Pedology
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The soils in Buila-Vânturariţa Massif, being partly formed on a limestone bedrock, are not too various, differences being based on the vegetal associations that formed on top of it.
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- Speleology
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The limestone ridge of Buila-Vânturariţa Massif, due to its south-west to north-east direction, represents a barrier for the rivers that collect the waters of the southern slopes of the Căpăţânii Mountains. Rivers, having to go around the central area, managed to pass through this barrier only ...
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- Climate
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The climate is levelled vertically, according to the relief shapes, registering differences and even climate switches from peak to peak.
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- Habitats
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There are various habitats in Buila-Vânturariţa National Park, 17 of which have a correspondent at European level and some of that are priority habitats:
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- Flora
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The first research on the flora of Buila-Vanturarita Massif, were conducted in 1956 by Alexandru Buia and M. Păun, followed by only a few botanists that have also published partial lists of plants to be found in the Massif.
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- Fauna
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Fauna, as well as flora, is extremely varied. Many of the species in the Buila-Vanturarita Massif are protected by international conventions that Romania has also ratified (the Convention of Berna, Convention of Bonn, Convention of CITES, the Directives on Habitats and Birds).
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