Danube Delta - Banks

They are among the main forms of relief of the Delata: either alluvia deposited in time by the river water (river banks) or by the sea (sea banks), or else they are fragments of plain enclosed by water. Some of them:

Letea, the most representative sea bank (20 km long , 15 km maximum width, 17,000 hectares, 13 m maximum altitude), an isosceles triangle with the base oriented to the Sulina arm. Sandy soil in dunes inhabited by tortoises, yellow and green lizards together with over 1,800 insect species (some of them rare speices) and a nocturne butterfly species (Rhyparioides metelkana), unique on the continent.

Caraoman, a sea bank south of the Sulina arm, it too, havins the shape of an isosceles triaglee, with the base neighbouring the Sf. Gheorghe arm (18 km long, 8 km maximum width, 7,000 hectares, cca 7 m maximum altitude). Dunes with specific vegetation and animal life.

Stipoc, a pre-delta land created by alluvia carried by the riverr approximately between Pardina locality and the southern part of the Chilia bank (30 km long, 2.5 km maximum width, 3,500 hectares, 3 m maximum altitude).

Crasnicol, in the southern part of the Sf. Gheorghe commune, a rather marshy area where the land shows up and vanishes overnight (18 km long, cca 3,500 hectares).

Last update: 1999, September 15
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