Danube Delta

SCIENCE AND LIFE IN THE DANUBE DELTA

Eighty kilometers before reaching the Black Sea, the Danube river splits into two, and then three branches, i.e. Chilia, Sulina and Sfântu Gheorghe, to create a unique and somehow exotic landscape. The river, which is 2,860 km long (apart from the delta), and the water gathered from its about 120 tributaries, meanders through the widening riverbed, while the Black Sea waves repel the sediments brought by the old "Danubius" from far away and deposit this rich earth at the mouth of the river. And this is how, along time, the youngest land in Europe came into being becoming a realm of reed and a safe refuge for many rare species of birds, fish and animals.Located at mid-distance between the North Pole and the Equator, the Danube Delta covers 4,152 sq. km of which 3,446 sq. km (82%) lie on the Romanian territory and the rest is in Ukraine.